QuestionCould you please list for me all the reasons why abortion should remain legal persay you were debating someone who is pro-life? Also it seems to me the numbers between people who support either side bounces around a lot according to polls. Like 65% ProChoice, and now it is much close to 50/50. Why do you think it may be such a volital social issue?
AnswerHi James :)
I can list for you the ones I can think of, but you'd need to ask many different women to get a more accurate and detailed list.
1. Motherhood should not be a punishment for sex.
2. A woman may be raped, and shouldn't have to carry any unwanted organism with her body and mind. That's a 10 moth 24/7 reminder of the trauma.
3. Inmates on death row aren't forced to donate their blood or their organs, yet that is what women are forced to do when abortion isn't legal or available.
4. The 60% of women who abort who already care for at least one child shouldn't be made to sacrifice their time and attention and money from their current kid(s).
5. If a woman has unprotected sex, she shouldn't be punished with a child. It's nobody's business, and only she has to deal with the consequences, if any.
6. Forcing women to be pregnant against their will isn't far off from forcing a woman to do sexual acts against her will-rape.
&. Not wanting to be pregnant. That is the only reason she needs.
The numbers vary because of the different groups who sponsor the polls, and how the data is received and analyzed. It is still clear the majority of America is pro-choice. The recent media babble about it being 50-50 was based on a very flawed survey question. If you ask someone if they are pro-life, they may be against abortion personally, but not for anyone else, but still identify as pro-life, when it is actually the politically inaccurate label.
It's volatile because it has to do with this country's puritan roots. Women's bodies are seen as something that needs policing and control-whether shaming women into dressing certain ways or surgically altering their bodies, to shaming them into behaving sexually according to what society deems "appropriate" and deciding the future of her entire life based on an unplanned (or even planned) pregnancy.
