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i oppose the legalization of abortion. As you can see, many women are pvery prone to this kind of situation and decision especially teenagers or young ladies who got pregnant so its their responsibility to take care of that child because they made and they decide to make the baby so they must take that risk. If you got pregnent because of rape then still you must take the risk, you know how important child is to oneself and you're not 100% sure that if you'll abort it your life is safe. Some women will have disease or more like they died during this kind of deadly process to her. The child has the right to live because that human it is the unison of male and female and you don't know what that child can do or he/she may take a very important part of your life that can improve you to be a better perosn or change into a better person. So there are many possibilities that abortion will be a bad part to our lives.

Comments by User:Doc

I didn't read my own personal views spelled out so I thought I'd share them.

1) An embryo/fetus/baby has 23 pairs of unique chromosomes and is undeniably 'alive'. 2) However, I do not believe 'personhood' is possible without the capacity to 'think' (or feel). For example, a breast cancer may have a unique set of chromosomes and is undeniably 'alive' but really isn't a person or have a potential to be a person. 3) The brain development requires synaptic connections in an organized fashion and the appropriate electrical activity for consciousness to occur. Physiologically, when someone falls 'unconscious' brain wave activity minimizes (although still present). 4) Brain wave activity is not observable until 120 days (about four months or the first trimester). Without brain waves, the embryo/fetus is a potential person. 5) A potential person should be protected and valued by the state and be afforded certain rights against abuse. However, these rights of a potential person should not supercede the rights of an actual person.

Abortion

If the woman wants to have an abortion then why try to have a kid in the first place? Also protection can easily have prevented this.

Stupid people

I say just stay away from it all until you actually want a kid instead of being "ignorant" in the first place. Don't kill a kid just because you didn't want it. If you didn't want it, don't do it!--Bizzy 12:27, 28 May 2009 (CDT)

Comment by User:Dawon1547

Babies have their right to survive, and if their parents take a way of abortion, it is a unethical behavior same as killing one person, who's innocent. It cannot be the behavior that expectent mothers and fathers do to their own babies. Even we don't argue with a ethical problems, how can they get rid of their precious member of their own family?