I can see your point. They say abortion is wrong because you're ending a life, but masturbation ruins the chances of a million or so sperm being able to become a life. Sperm move on their own, and they're able to preform actions (such as burrowing into the egg). So how can you say that life starts at conception, but ignore the "life" of the sperm, since they to can "die".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because sperm is, for the most part, infinite? Eggs are not?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The egg would have been "destroyed" for lack of a better word, during the woman's period.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In the sense that people are gonna do it if it's banned anyway?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think that abortion was banned most people wouldn't have one any way unless they went to another country where it was legal. The demographics of who is getting an abortion is changing and it's more exceptable to be an unwed parent. I think the numbers would be very small, in regards to abortion. But it's really just conjecture.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*if abortion was banned

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Statistics show that if abortion was illegal women would just get unsafe "back ally" abortions risking their life, countries where abortion is illegal have similar rates of abortion but illegal abortions are dangerous and 70,000 women die a year getting them because of serious complications. Death from abortion is almost unknown in the countries where abortion is legally available.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That is an extremely small percentage. Also, I'm saying that in places like America where it is more acceptable to be an unwed parent, people are not as desperate to get abortions. More teenagers are willing to give birth when faced with an unplanned pregnancy (because there's not as much of a stigma) and now its women who are already mothers, and/or in their thirties who are getting the majority of abortions. Having a kid is probably much less of a strain for them than it would be for a teenager. If I'm being honest, I also don't fully believe that the statistics of back alley abortions are accurate. In the U.S. most back alley abortions were being done by physicians. In America, in one year before abortion was legal, only 39 women died from back alley abortions.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It doesn't matter that it's a small percentage 70,000 women a year could be saved by access to safe abortions. I think it's a great that the stigma of being a unwed parent is reducing, people shouldn't feel forced by society to have an abortion. Actually the majority of women getting abortions are in their 20s, but that's whatever, the thing is you don't know each woman's reason for getting one and there are countless reasons why they would. Who are you to say that women in their thirties are going to have less strain than a teenager, again you don't know everyone's individual situation. That's the point, people should be able to have the option if they need it, and if a woman really wants one she will have one weather it is illegal or not. The 39 deaths is reported ones, it's impossible to know actual deaths and doesn't included deaths from self induced abortions, but yes there were a lot less than before penicillin was used (which is a good thing) and because physicians preformed them and had access to the equipment and medication. But this all depends on what country you're living in of course. In America when it was illegal it was still happening and in countries today where it

by Anonymous 12 years ago

is illegal the percentage is around the same as countries where it is. Anyway I don't think abortion should be encouraged, proper contraception and sex education reducing the need for abortions should be encouraged, but I don't think abortion should be illegal because there are women who have a genuine need for them and will get them anyway.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well that's the thing. I think that those 70000 women died as a result of killing their children. I think the death of 3 million children a year is more important, but that's because I think that life starts the second your dna comes together and is created. People murder and rape other people even though that's illegal, but I still don't think we should make it legal. But again that's because I think that abortion is killing a human being. I also still think that it is probable that women who are older can handle child birth better because they are more emotionally stable than teenagers, as a whole. The people who are raped and become pregnant did not have a choice in it and I have sympathy for them (I still don't think they should get an abortion) but 99 percent of abortions are not from rape or incest, they are from people who had the choice to have sex, and knowing the risks, had sex anyway. You did that to yourself. If you really could not handle having a child, or be responsible for yourself, you should not have sex. You getting pregnant is your own doing; you knew the consequences.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I disagree. I don't think that a fertalised egg = a person and I don't think that abortion is akin to murder. The women who had abortions did not kill their children because foetus' aren't children. But you have your own personal opinion and I'm not going to be able to change that. It was nice talking to you anyway and I respect you for being able to have a civilised debate.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah you too. I just think that that is when life starts, but in some ways it really is a matter of perspective I guess. I just thoguht I would put my opinion out there.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

OP was saying that people think abortion is wrong because the fetus "has potential," but so does sperm

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The difference is a fetus actually has potential, is alive, and is neither a sperm nor an egg, but both. A sperm isn't alive in the same way a fetus is.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yea, but sperm actually has potential, too. It's not ready to be a conscious human being yet, but a fetus is not in the first three months (give or take) either

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"A sperm isn't alive in the same way a fetus is alive". Life begins at conception. As soon as the sperm gets to the egg. Sperm does not have the same potential.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It doesn't have AS MUCH potential. I said that. Someone that is yet to enter a race has less of a chance to win the race in the future, and has less chance to win than someone already entered in the race (in the future) but they still have a chance to enter, and then win. It just involves the extra step.

by Anonymous 12 years ago