Should abortion be limited?

[adaminthemiddle]

Well, something many people seem to forget is that the Roe vs. Wade decision, which many claim declared anti-abortion laws unconstitutional, actually only declared laws limiting abortion in the first trimester unconstitutional. It also declared that abortion should be allowed in life or death situations.

So, what's your opinion? Do you agree with the Roe vs. Wade decision? Or do you think abortion should be further limited? Or less limited?

[adaminthemiddle]

Personally, I'm morally against abortion. (See, and you thought I was a full-fledged Democrat! :-P) It's murder. If you chose to have a child (unless you were raped, in which case abortion should be legal), you should have to stick to that decision. It's a big decision, so you should decide carefully and be SURE about it; you shouldn't get a second chance.

Obviously, if death is possible, then abortion should be used to avoid it at all costs.

I also think, at least for now, we should stick to the Roe vs. Wade decision of the trimester rules until they're overturned. For one, that's the constitutional route. For another thing, it's a decent compromise between the radical pro-choicers and pro-lifers.

[Zan de Man]

This is why I fail to see abortion as a right/left issue.

However, I support our current UK abortion law, which requires the consent of two doctors and is legal only up to 24 weeks, unless there is substantial risk that the fetus is seriously abnormal.

[Xenchantresse]

I personally, think that women should consider options first, and make their choices rationally, rather than impulsively... in a perfect world. But we don't live in a perfect world. So I believe that it is better to have it legal, and performed in a sterile clinical environment, with high chances of adequate physical recovery, than to have women butchering themselves, and being butchered by unethical, back-alley, women slaughterers, as was happening less than a century ago.

I never thought I would would make the choice to do it... I was morally against it for myself... UNTIL I was faced with a health decision, which was exaserbated by lack of support, from the one other person is affected most, for getting through it all. I am grateful to the women who fought to have it made legal and safe, in a known clinical environment. I am thankful that it was available to me.

It was the most difficult decision I ever made in my life, but I know it was the right choice. Looking back, I don't see how I could have considered any other option... and I did. I looked at all of the choices I had, and almost chose to give birth, which I think would have been catastrophic, knowing what I know now.

Absolutely... legal, safe and a woman's CHOICE, is the only rational way to go.

[jpn of Seattle]

I think the Supreme Court got Roe v Wade about right, and so far we're 4-0 in support of their decision.
Roe holds that first trimester abortions should be pretty unlimited, second trimester abortions less easily obtained, and third trimester the most restricted.
They got it right. Let it rest.