Does religion affect your stance on abortion?

I've always been against it if it can be helped. Sometimes there's no way to save the mother (or baby therefore) if the baby is allowed to grow in a bad place, like in the fallopian tube for example. I believe that the focus should be on saving at least one of the lives. If the baby is big enough to survive outside the womb and there is danger, then a c-section can be done to save both. If there is danger and the baby is not old enough to survive outside womb, save mother... of course, since babies cannot grow in thin air. They need to be inside the mother for at least a few months to survive outside the womb, so of course mother should be saved even though the unintended side effect would be that the baby dies.

I believe in what is known as the Catholic Doctrine of "Double Effect" This was my belief before, but when i saw something about this on EWTN, it confirmed my personal feelings and view on it.

I found a website:

http://www.ascensionhealth.org/ethics/public/issues/abortion.asp

You were in an abortion clinic? I'm not aware that abortions are done in other facilities much less on minors without parental consent (although states vary on this one).

I don't think religion is that big of an influence. Look at Tiller, he was a Lutheran and was active in his church. Many women who have abortions are Christians. I know many Christians who support abortion. I'm atheist and I'm against abortion. You do not need to believe in a mythical figure to know that abortion ends a beating heart with human DNA.

Abortion should be made illegal. About 93% of abortions are done because the woman feels unprepared to be a mother. That's it. About 1.2 million abortions occur each year with the 12 weeks. If you look at 4-D ultrasounds of 8-week fetuses you'll see how human they are. They are not a bunch of cells, they possess much of what makes a being human.

That is just my opinion and I know many would like to burn me for that. But I am what I am.

I worked with a woman who went to have an abortion but decided to keep her babies when she found out they were twins. She probably wanted the attention they would bring her. I think after an abortion they should tie a woman's tubes and give a vasectomy to the male.

Yes, religion has affected my stance on abortion. Abortion is wrong.

Yeah. People are stupid. You can't count on them being responsible. So, you really want these irresponsible people breeding and raising kids? Come onnnn

Also - A fetus is not a baby until it exits the womb and has the ability to reason. Until then you may as well have a parasite living off its host. My religion (or lack thereof) has a huge affect on my opinion. I'm an atheist and consider myself to be very logical.

NO. i don't placed any emphasis on who is going to permit gay marriage and abortion. Nor do I evaluate their marital happiness or constancy, or lack thereof. I basically want to vote on the placement of national risk-free practices, jobs and education. I bypass away all else for the states to artwork out.

i think it depends on your religion, catholicism and evangelicalism are strongly against abortion and birth control. teenage girls raised in these faiths are terrified to talk to their parents about safe sex and end up pregnant due to ignorance.

i am an agnostic, and i feel very strongly that women should have the choice. i do believe that abortion should never be used as a form of birth control and that a person should not have the procedure after 14 weeks. as for stricter guidelines, they are pretty strict already! in pa, where i live, there are a ton of specifications when you want an abortion (ex. pics, 48 hour wait period, parental notification if under 18)

as to the fact that a 16 year old girl was having one done, that is awfully young, but i do not think a 16 year old could provide a healthy environment for a child and perhaps she or her parents felt that continuing the pregnancy with the option of adoption would be too traumatic.

My personal religious beliefs and my sense of what is politically right for our country are often at odds. I happen to believe that abortion is wrong and should never have been made legal in the first place. However, the issue on which legalized abortion is based, a person's right to privacy when it comes to their health and health care providers, is valid and should be upheld.

That being said, I also believe that anyone underage should have to have parental consent for ANY medical procedure or medication. It may not be true of all 14 - 17 year olds, but the vast majority are under informed, undereducated and ill-prepared for the consequences of such a life-altering decision.

Religion doesn't affect my stance, but FREEDOM of religion does.

Not all religions take the "life begins at conception" stance. Some use "the breath is the life" i.e. first gasp. Others use the cutting of the umbilicus, i.e. becoming a separate person. Still others use quickening, i.e. first fetal movement.

The only TRUE way to have freedom of religion is to allow abortion at all times and then let the individual's religion guide each choice. I.e. take the church out of the clinic and put it back in the patient's family to make that kind of decision. Don't make the decision for another if that other might be a different religion than yours. Otherwise, you deny them a chance to practise their religion.

No, religion does not affect my stance on abortion. Women deserve the rights to their own bodies. You have jumped to conclusions; how do you know if she had used contraceptives or not? Did you no not even using a condom with the pill is not 100% effective? However, you are more than likely right about that girl... not "convenient"... the nerve of some ignorant people. Just think about it: if that girl had had her child, it probably would have never been given the proper attention or care because that's just it: babies having babies. I believe abortion should be used as a last resort. And yes, girls such as her need to take this subject much more seriously. Anyways, I still stand by my original opinion: women deserve the rights to their own bodies.

No, practicality and logic do. A woman can make up her mind in three months and can get free birth control and condoms from health clinics. It seems to me that some people view abortion as a convenient substitute for birth control, therefore (according to their logic) they can have as many as they like.

I think there are good and bad reasons for abortion, namely because of birth control. Also, single parenthood is much more acceptable than it used to be, women make more money, marriage is an option and adoption is also another option. So I don't think it is right to use abortion to replace birth control. It should be used when people make a mistake or birth control fails.