Why is it ok to have an abortion to save the mothers life?

anastasia beaverhausen-the real1

i'm pro choice. other people's bodies are none of my business.

Kell P

Some situations are complicated. I was pregnant with my 4th baby and at 5 months there were major problems the baby and I went into distress and the baby had no heart beat and I was not doing well I was in accident and was bleeding internally and the doctors had to know if it came to it me or the baby which do they try to save first. At first i said the baby then everyone even the doctor had to remind me what about the 3 other kids i already had and the father had passed away a month earlier in a diffrent car accident so I was the only parent. I had to choose to save me first as my obligation to my children it broke my heart to make that decision but today I am happy to say we both made it and it is hard to think what it would be like if it went wrong.

tish

quite honestly,

elective abortion, therapeutic abortion, discarded embryos in fertility clinics...are any of these practices 'different from the other?"

if we can support therapeutic abortion, and destroying unused embryos in fertility clinics, then what's the hoopla over elective termination?

quite honestly, this is above my paygrade; and seriously pokes holes in the "pro-life"/anti-choice banter. as a rule, i tend to stay out of the ovaries and uterus of other women...

and i'd appreciate if other's would stay out of mine.

great question...

KeepSmiling

because if the mother will die anyway you will have lost 2 lives. there are very rare occassions when the mother life is in serious risk but i feel that you cant not choose the mother. what if she has other children to care for. If there is nothing wrong with the mother you are killing the baby for no reason other than you dont want it. well there are plently of people who do.

A M

If it's ok with the parents, then it IS ok to have an abortion for another reason. It's no one else's decision (not that of politicians, not clergy, not judges, etc.).

The bible might say that abortions are not allowed, but that's a religious rule - not a universal rule.

Erin L

Why is it okay to have an abortion to save the mother's life? Wow. The fact that anyone would think the law, moral or judicial, should require one person to give their life for the sake of another is flabergasting to me.

For people who think abortion is killing a living person, don't we forgive killing in self-defense? We don't call that murder.

Now many people say they would be glad to lay down their life for their child - forgetting for a second that many people don't consider a fetus and a baby who can survive on it's own the same thing - let's just for the sake of argument call a fetus a living human being. I would lay down my life for my child. I would jump in front of a bullet for her, I would donate an organ for her, etc. But I would not agree with any law requiring those things. And if my daughter grows up to have a child, I certainly wouldn't agree with any law requiring her to give her life for a child.

opedial

What a woman chooses to do with her body is her choice, plain and simple. Her body, her choice. She does not need to justify.

Gaia Raain

Exactly what BPD said. My personal feelings and my "political" feelings don't mesh well. I can't see myself having an abortion, but I will defend another woman's right to have one.

Besides, having an abortion for "health" reasons (or to save her life) is so difficult to pin down a definition for. A friend of mine had an abortion because her ex boyfriend was abusive. She and her child would have been in danger if the father had found out she was pregnant, and if she had carried the baby to term, she would have been tied to this abusive man for the rest of her life. Adoption was never an option for her. Personally, I think that would constitute an abortion to save her life (he could have killed her - he was PSYCHO abusive...scary). But it wouldn't be covered under any kind of medical definition.

I can't see myself ever deciding to have an abortion, personally. But it MUST be legal and accessible for all women. I have no business trying to decide for someone else what is the "right" reason for her to have an abortion. The decision to have an abortion has got to be so gut-wrenchingly difficult...if she thinks that's what's best for her, that's good enough for me.

B. White

Either way it is okay. It's a woman's body and it's her choice. Ideally abortions would be rare and society would not condemn a woman who makes the difficult choice to terminate her pregnancy.

Melissa S

Having a Child is life changing. That is why it is up to the person/couple who does it.

Freckle Face

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I miss you!

imo, its not. The argument i hear is that in this case, medically you are taking a life to save a life. Imo, no one is going to go by a case by case abortion scenario. Abortion is more a all or nothing, thing. Either its an option for women or its not.

cathrl69

Well, if the mother dies before baby is viable, they're both dead anyway. How can two deaths (both mother and baby) not be a worse option than just baby?

I've never been in that situation, thank goodness. But I think it's obvious that they can be different. Sometimes it's medically necessary and sometimes it isn't. That's like saying "how can it be okay to sometimes cut off a child's leg?" For cosmetic reasons it would always be unacceptable. But if they have aggressive bone cancer and amputation will save their life, then it would be okay. Situations can be massively different.

Karez121

This is stupid! so you think if the mother is going to die from it she shouldn't get an abortion she and the baby would both die anyway! The mother is more important than the fetus, The fetus is not even a human being yet!

Hannah B

All lives are of equal value but the mother is a person that is loved by other, has achieved things and may have other dependents. Also in most cases where the mother would die the baby would also die so it is one dies or both die.

Rowan

Because sometimes, there are complications in the pregnancy that cause things to go very wrong. Such as the mother being in a car accident, or other things that force that kind of desicion. Sometimes, the mother has other children she has to think about. its harsh, but true. The choice is theirs and who are we to judge that?

Harriet

I guess because if it doesn't happen then both mother and child die and people don't want that.

Harriet

Nameless

Because in many cases it is killing on where otherwise 2 would live. in the situation of the mothers life if is killing one but otherwise the mother and therefor the baby would die.

*Baby BOY due 2/14/09*

this really is a silly question to ask in my opinion. I really do not see why this would even be in question!

AdoreHim

I have a couple of friends that were told that if they carried their babies to term that they we endangering there own. One had a very bad case of gestational diabetes, and the other had been diagnosed with an advanced cancer- they both chose to take the risk and NOT abort their babies, and both of them are fine, and the children are growing up perfectly healthy. If I was pregnant and told that I had to terminate my pregnancy in order to save my life, I would not do it. I would take that chance. An abortion is the same whether it is because of choice, because of health or rape. 4000 abortions a day in America and only about 3% of them are because of rape and/or health of mother.

Sami Sue

in some situations, having the baby would kill the mother and the baby, then you have two deaths on your hands. but you're right, abortion is still abortion, and you're still killing.
if you're healthy and you just don't want the baby i say adoption not abortion.

Paul M

It is another way "man" has become selfish. If someone came in and said it's me or my kid, I would gladly lay down my life for my kid to live. I feel a woman should do the same.

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