Why Are People Pro-Choice?

[AlaunaBlackwood]

What do they believe and why?

[Mozz71]

Because a woman has the right to chose what happens to her body. Plain and simple.

[waterboatman]

Same applies to men.

[Theland]

The sanctity of life is diminished, hence abortion on demand.

[Ric.ror]

I find it strange that people who agree with abortion are more than likely to be against the death penalty. FTR I’m not in favour of either

[mibn2cweus]

Given the choice, I would not have chosen to be born into a world where women were forced to have sex or to give birth.

[woofgang]

I don't know why "people" are pro choice. I know why I am pro choice.

[andy-hughes]

Alauna - are you referring to any choice, of the notion of a woman's choice to carry her foetus to term?

[Old_Geezer]

Because they assign no value/rights to the developing human.

[spathiphyllum]

People who are pro-choice believe that a woman should be able to decide if she is ready, prepared or even wants her own child. The reason for this is because people believe a woman should be able to decide if she goes through such an experience or if she is ready or capable of bringing a baby into the world.

The population crisis is real. Why bring babies into the world simply for the sake of it? There is enough hurt let alone forcing women to bring unwanted babies into the world.

Only a woman knows what she wants an if she doesn't want nine months of a baby growing in her followed by a lifetime of responsibility and financial burden bloody fair enough.

[Mozz71]

Agree 100% with Spath on this one. Well said.

[KARL]

The explanations so far pretty much cover the basis for giving women the choice. What is lacking is the same degree of freedom for men. Sadly, even shockingly often, men end up becoming fathers in spite of not wanting to if/when on the other hand the woman wants to become pregnant. Women have the Pill, the morning after pill, abortion and sterilisation. Men have sterilisation, or the condom which half a century and more ago was better than nothing but is woefully behind women's options. Make no mistake, if men had the option of contraception as effective as women's then we would see a significant change in things, including at least a temporary drop in the birth rate in many countries, including the UK until women ensured they had a Yes from the man so he releases his fertility or else women in significant numbers switched to sperm banks.

Some have a conspiracy theory to explain why the male contraceptive methods so far developed and found effective have not reached market years later. Women are at a distinct advantage in these matters.

[woofgang]

When men carry the child and bear the child then they can choose. In the mean time if they really don't want to be fathers they can keep it zipped.

[ummmm]

Agree with Woof. If men don't want children they should take their own protection or abstain!

[Mozz71]

Absolute claptrap Karl.

If a guy doesn't want to have kids, don't go in bareback. Wear a condom, or if they feel so strongly about it, get a snip.

A guy can easily prevent a pregnancy happening, but if it's gotten beyond that stage, its time to man up and face the music.

[spathiphyllum]

Some women aren't pro choice.. It's not a male thing to force a pregnancy on a woman.

[spathiphyllum]

Condoms rip. Accidents happen.

You seem pro choice but you're not pro expression of choice? If a male doesn't want a child he has every right to voice that.

[ummmm]

You're right, Spath, but the OP says 'people' not 'women'

Theland is talking utter tripe again. To get a termination you have to convince 2 doctors. Doctors can and do deny them.

This 'abortion on demand' is quite sickening simply because it isn't true.

[Old_Geezer]

Moral issues do not discriminate on gender as to who may have a view. Neither are they restricted to only considering one side of a discussion.

[woofgang]

I think that being "pro choice", for me at least, is the least bad option of the two....I mean there are only two options....one is to allow people who have the mental capacity, as defined by the Mental Capacity Act, to have control over what they do with their own bodies. The other is to remove that freedom from them. Those who remember or know about the years when abortion was illegal and the terrible things women went through would surely not want those times back?
pro choice is NOT the same as pro abortion.

[Cloverjo]

Well said, woofgang.