Pro-Life – does it matter?

It should only matter to the individual.

What one does with their life is their own business. What I do with my life does not affect yours, especially when it comes to my body.

Like about how there is SUPPOSED to be a separation of church and state in this country, and yet the people who go against abortion all seem to be religious followers. I'm sorry, but abortion has nothing to do with religion, abortion has to do with WOMEN'S RIGHTS and a WOMEN'S RIGHT TO CHOSE. Abortion has to do with personal decisions and what's going on in that woman's life at the time, not just whether she's 'killing a life' inside of her or not.

Pro life/choice.... Doesn't matter politically. Very pro-life pubs had the whitehouse, the house, the senate, and most of the supreme court for 8 years... then almost all that for the next 2. How many abortions did that stop?

I'm pretty sure pubs will never ever ever overturn roe v wade. If they do what will they bitch about? Rich people paying taxes? It's really the only thing they care about. All our problems would go away if only rich people didn't pay taxes.

First I don't think any candidate can say they are pro-LIFE if they want to create war. Mitt has stated that he would take military actions against other countries so he's obviously not pro-life.

Second if anyone here wants to stop abortions then I suggest they start adopting children of mothers that can't afford the children they create.

Third if someone wants to make a law that stops abortions and forces the mother to take the responsibility of the child then there should also be a law that the state fund her child's life until they are 18.

I don't think the Republican party can run around saying that Government should stay out of people's business and then make laws that force people to do what the Government wants them to do. If Republicans want to stay out of people's lives then they should stop trying to control a woman's right to choose.

For all those that voted other then "Pro-life does matter." and to us it matters most, lets say your mother that was carrying you was walking into the abortion clinic, they lied to her, told her that you were nothing but a blob, did not tell her that your blood type was not the same as her blood as you two are separate systems and your heart beat was not your mother's heart beat... But that what ever she ate you ate, whatever she breathe you did too and whatever she drank you took the same sip! But then, she laid down and you are now gone! Sorry, you are not history, you were just flushed! Zip, gone! Now, before you leave, would you want your mother to hear from someone that would like to save your life and give you and your mother a second chance? Oh, okay, you want to be aborted, okay, then you just did it to yourself and you no long have a voice, you self-terminated yourself!

Exuse me, I get the whole 'I was aborted' thing, but what about the MOTHER. You're justifying abortion through making people think 'oh what if it was me?' but what about telling why the mother is getting an abortion in the first place? I mean, there is more than one reason than simply to get an abortion because they 'don't think of their unborn child as a life'. Please, explain to me why the mother is getting an abortion and why it is STILL wrong to get an abortion?

I write so people think; that is all, there are women, gals, girls that have had an abortion, some multiple and then a day or reckoning comes and there are groups that help these women out and they call them support groups and some call them a ministerial aid for the recalled and fallen and to help them heal in ALL ways! My granddaughter just told me that she is expecting a little girl this spring, this would be her second child...I have helped a few in my time and I am not over it yet! We are awaiting their view soon as they come down to see us for the holidays and we have a whole heap of fun! But then when I get all my grandchildren together, we always have a blast, over 12 together at one time..

I want to also propose that if you are not for the personhood amendment you are not pro-life. You may be anti-abortion but you are not pro-life.

Pro-life is not the correct name. A ball of cells is not "life"

How could anyone who is pro life, Christian or Jewish vote for someone who supports abortion including late term/partial birth abortions and infanticide?

Beautiful!!!!!

PRO-LIFE DOES MATTER = Fetuses are God's little miracles. They are defenseless while they are in a womb. Can we just sit and watch while women kill them and have them cut up in little pieces. No.....we should not stand for it, because it is immoral and it is murder. I myself believe it is different if a woman is raped or her life is at stake, but even then, though I would encourage her to save the child if possible.

I don't support abortion but I do support a womans right to choose.

Exactly!

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That's the equivalent of saying, "I don't support murder, but I do support the murderer's right to kill".

If it's an acceptable practice, why should it be kept rare?

It means I don't believe in controlling the lives of others.

Unless of course the lives being controlled are those of unborn innocents.

Like I said I don't support abortion and would not have one, but I don't believe we should control anyone regardless of what I think morally. I also think I shouldn't have to pay for someones abortion.

By your logic, those who perpetrate homicide on people after they have taken their first breath of air shouldn't be condemned because said condemnation involves control based on a moral judgment.

OMG. No government intrusion in our lives.

If you're pro life, please don't do an abortion.
If you're pro choice, please don't let other's who disagree pay for it.

Of course Pro Life matters... The Pro Life movement of which I consider myself a small and rather insignificant member, is more than a political lobby. Unlike the various lobbies that represent the special interest groups and key demographics that prop up both the Democrats and the GOP, the pro-life movement represents a group that can’t vote, can’t contribute to campaigns, and can’t even speak for itself, the truly least among us.

I am Pro Life because because for me LIFE matters. Even people who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the existence of a God who cares must see the potential danger, a downward spiral into a collective cruelty and callousness towards the voiceless and the weak from which humanity may not recover. If we cannot protect those innocent ones who are unable to fend for themselves and have no voice of protest. Then why do we call ourselves a civilised society, why do we call ourselves "HUMAN" beings. When we participate in the slaughter of our future generations, our own offspring.

Beautifully written...

It matters to me. I try to see this issue from both sides but I just can't. I don't think we will ever see the day when the abortion debate is settled.

I think it matters and yet this issue needs to be in the individual states not in the federal government.

It is guarenteed in the constitution. The supreme court should reverse RvW and set as a precedent that life begins at conception.

I absolutely love the Every One statements!!!! Bravo!!!

Thank you.

Righteousness exalts a nation. If we all just sit by and say nothing while aborting babies in the womb - we are all guilty.

I wish Republicans were more consistent in supporting pro-life positions. End the wars!

I hit the the wrong choice. To each his own. I myself believe in prolife, but have had to support to a girlfriend who had an abortion. At the time the decision not to have the child was the better choice. It did on the other hand effect us both emotionally.

So sad... :'(

Yeah it was not the best feeling in the world. It's a very hard choice to have to make. I would never judge a woman for having to make that choice. It's not easy at all. I can remember getting sick at the time of the abortion. I don't think that any woman takes it lightly because it does have an emotional consequence. If people let there actions reflect there belief you can convince more people rather than pass judgment. There are alot of pro life people like me who have had abortions. The ironic thing my mother was ill when she was pregnant with me and her doctor advised her to consider abortion because she may or both of us could not make it during my delivery. I'm forty and she is sixty four.

I'm thankful my mother didn't kill me.

It really matters when it's your life even more.

The Declaration of Independence was a declaration of war. It was not a set of laws, and definitely not a statement of the "core functions of the State". It was a letter to England.

And of course, the word "life" is the problem here. The cow you ate for lunch, was life. The mouse you trapped in your garage, was life. This is not about "life". You people are talking about a very, very specific thing: The unfeeling, unaware growth in another human's body.

We feel more empathy for the plight of a chimpanzee than we do for an ant than we do for a rock, and the reasons should be clear. We can empathize with their conscious experience. Unfeeling, unaware growths in another person's body has no conscious experience. It's a growing mass of cells, no matter what it "looks" like.

When we consider 90% of abortions occur before the end of week twelve, when the fetus is the size of a large strawberry, we have to start asking why so many have a problem with it, because I do not see it. Forcing a woman to go full term and birth a child when it is unwanted, is what would be horrifyingly evil. IMO.

"The unfeeling, unaware growth in another human's body."

In your opinion, when does this growth become more valuable than a toenail?

I "value" the decision of the mother more than I do of the unfeeling, unaware growth in HER body.

Generally speaking, however, when I can empathize with its conscious experience. I thought I had explained this.