Iwantone!!!

i personally dont believe in abortion if u dont want a child then where ur socks in bed i no a friend of a friend who has about 5 abortions and she found out she was pregant again and deciede to keep this one and my question is why is this baby any different to the ones that u got rid of i feel that she has unprotected sex for the sake of it and new there was an easy way out she aborted them until she wanted it (as far as am aware there was medical reason not to keep the baby ) but on the other hand if you have been raped/ molested as tramitci as thats is if u feel bringing up that child would be harder i think u have the right to get rid as it may only cause more heart ache i think the abortion limit should be reduce to 20wks a family memeber also had an abortion as the child had downs and she felt this was hardest thing to every do but she could not live the longterm heartache i dont agree with it but i do have my views and each to there own if u feel u cant cope them why but a child through it they did not asked to be born but for ppl who do it must feel guilty everyday and think about it everyday so until u have been in there shoes i cant really comment but it must be hard after watching that progamm it made feel ill x

Mynxie

I'm sure everyone who has been pregnant and is on a baby forum has at some point googled images and info of x weeks pregnant...I did....it brought up the stuff I wanted to see....but also brought up aborted babies too very upsetting

Wobbles

Very Mynxie

Mynxie

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20...6323e80_1.html

Press Assoc. - Wednesday, October 24 06:33 pmThe Government does not believe there is enough evidence to back changing the law on abortion, a health minister has said.
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Dawn Primarolo told MPs that the Government studied a range of research to formulate its opinion.
While the issue over a 24-week upper limit on abortion should be debated in the Commons, a foetus's chance of surviving at early gestational ages had not improved despite advances in care, she said.
Ms Primarolo was giving evidence to the Science and Technology Committee's inquiry, which follows medical advances and widespread public interest after the release of 3D images showing foetuses apparently "walking in the womb" at 12 weeks.
Ms Primarolo insisted that the chance of survival to discharge from hospital was 0% for babies born at 21 weeks, 1% at 22 weeks and 11% at 23 weeks.
She told MPs that lowering the age definition for viability would imply that survival rates had improved, and "they have not in the consensus of evidence we have".
One set of figures submitted to the committee shows no improvements between 1995 and 2006 in the number of babies born under 26 weeks who survive to go home.
She added that the Department of Health's current position was that the Abortion Act "worked as Parliament intended".
According to the most recent figures, the number of abortions in England and Wales stood at 193,700 in 2006, compared with 186,400 in 2005.
A breakdown of the statistics for 2006 showed that 136 abortions were performed at 24 weeks and over. There were 17,917 abortions performed between 13 and 19 weeks, and between 20 and 23 weeks there were 2,812.

Mynxie

I think she's missing the point the silly tart....those guidelines have stayed the same since the 70s!

beanie

I think I am missing the point too - what guidelines??

Mynxie

the 24 week guidelines

VanWest

beanie

I read it as she acknowledges that but is saying that the medical advances made had not improved enough to support a change the guidelines.

beanz

I will always be in favour of choice. Though I hate the idea of Abortion being used as just another form of contraception by people who don't take any precautions. Trouble is that it's so easy to get the required 2 doctors to sign off the forms (In the UK) and you can tell them almost anything you want about the contraception mistakes you may or may not have used.

My view is that I should have the choice to have an abortion but I should also make no bones about the fact that I am destroying the cells which are in the process of forming a child. It's a horrible fact but it is true. I have no religious morality about this issues so I think I am lucky in many respects as I do feel sorry for those people raised in very religious ways which may shape the guilt or moral feelings they have about this issue.

Also - I do think that there are many many women ot there who make the difficult decision to terminate a pregnancy but can go on to lead guilt free lives, with kids inthe future. i.e the decisions they made were right for them at the time and they don't spend the rest of their lives wracked with guilt, and don't feel more guilty when they do decide the time is right to be a parent.