ITS YOUR CHOICE AND YOUR LIFE AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU AND A BABY!!!!

I think that it's true it's the mother's decision but it is like mu rder when they do it for a non medicle reason. Just think if you had a child and you wanted an abortion that child will never see life and all the fun things that happen. you'll never here there first word, see there first step,take them for ice cream when you see there straight a report card.so just think before you choose if you want to see or here those things, or if you want to take them away from something that can't stan up for their self.

I think that it's true it's the mother's decision but it is like mu rder when they do it for a non medicle reason. Just think if you had a child and you wanted an abortion that child will never see life and all the fun things that happen. you'll never here there first word, see there first step,take them for ice cream when you see there straight a report card.so just think before you choose if you want to see or here those things, or if you want to take them away from something that can't stan up for their self.

Terriorist have killed 3,000 Americans since 1990
Abortionist have killed 4,000 Americans since Yesterday!
Tell me this- when a child is stil-born that means they have died in their mother's sack, If I remember correctly AND I DO
you must have a heart beating to have been alive. You can't die unless your heart was once beating. Come on people take responsibiltie for your actions! Taking your very own child's life just to hide the embaresment of your own reality...
It's not right, nor will it ever be. Their are some children that are who are born even after their mother's have chosen to try and delete them, and those children who live today are thankful for that chance to be alive. That among other reason is why I beg you to look in mirror and understand that the thing inside of you, is a real living child that is growing with you!

I think women should have the right to have abortions,its thier choice.

*ahem* Murder is illegal, but it still happens anyway... abortion is going to happen, legal or not. People who want abortions are not going to let the law stop them should the practice become illegal. You've always got your crooked doctors, but the real problem is that alternative methods, ie coathanger abortions, not only fulfill their intended purpose of killing the baby, but often kill the mother, too.
By that logic, legalized abortion means taking one life instead of two.
btw- I'm not sure what kind of forum this is, I just stumbled across it while I was researching an article I'm about to write on abortion... thought I'd put my two cents in. ;-)

i can understand abortion when the mother is raped or if there is medical problems but to just get an abortion because you think you are not able to hanndle a child or you are using it as a birth control that is wrong there are plenty of people out there who would love to have a baby buy cant. You are not only killing the baby but you could also be killing or hurting your self.

To say "I'm against abortion, but that's just my morality; my neighbor has the right to an abortion if that's what she decides " is the same as saying "I'm against slavery, but that's just my morality; my neighbor has the right to own slaves if that's what he/she decides". The problem with libertarianism is, taken consistently, it's relativistic, it can't really condemn anything, but obviously there is much in life that, for practical reasons, we'd better condemn. As for the idea that "murder is illegal, but they're going to happen anyway", well great! Let's just repeal all laws against murder, and forgo the headache of trying to enforce them. Life would be so much simpler.
(As for the notion that slavery hurts other people, but abortion doesn't, consider: conception begins a process the end of which is death. That process, then, is life. In a human mother, is the process canine life? no. Is it feline life? no. It's human life. It's a human life. In unique circumstances, sure, but it's still human life. To kill it is murder, no matter how out-of-sight, and powerless, it may be.)

Don, to whom are your directing your comments? I've re-read everything written here so far and I can't understand who your target is.

As I'm the only self-identified libertarian in sight, I'll respond.

I do not hold the following position: "I'm against abortion, but that's just my morality; my neighbor has the right to an abortion if that's what she decides." My ethics are hardly relativistic. An action that I describe as wrong and immoral is both, and I'll think so regardless of the opinions of those who disagree. I do not think abortion is fundamentally wrong. I can be used for vain, responsibility-dodging reasons, but that does not qualify it as a moral evil.

I'm against physical coercion; I'm against using aggression to force someone to do something they'd normally not do under the circumstances. Murder, assault, and theft all fall under this rubric. Therefore, I'm against using the government to prevent or punish women and their doctors if they participate in abortions. I'm against forcing a woman to give birth or to end her pregnancy.

Is it murder to kill a fetus? Only if a fetus has the full moral standing as a human. I deny that because a fetus is a *potential* human, akin to a seedling being a *potential* tree. A fetus ceases to be a potential human, in my opinion, once it leaves the womb and the umbilical cord is severed.

Now, regarding your comments about libertarianism and relativism, it is certainly true there are moral subjectivists out there who call themselves libertarians, belong to libertarian organizations, and espouse libertarian ideas. But it is as intellectually lazy and morally blind to label every libertarian with the "relativistic" title as it is to think all Jews are socio-economic oppressors.