[TheMom]

You must be personally for ANYTHING before you can believe in ANYBODY else has the right to choose it.

I respectfully disagree.

Abortion is something I do not believe in, something I have never considered, nor would ever consider. I don't believe in it as a form of birth control.

I do believe that a woman, and a man, should have the right to make the choice of whether or not to bring a baby into this world.

[johniegrad]

66 answers nothing. Why do you not believe in abortion as a form or birth control and why do you not believe in abortion as acceptable to you and your husband?

[Nova]

I agree completely, but I think I'll go on to another post. Good luck trying to explain/justify the concept of "personal freedom" on this issue.

[lmr]

I don't believe in it as a form of birth control.

I do believe that a woman, and a man, should have the right to make the choice of whether or not to bring a baby into this world.

You're contradicting yourself here, unless you mean that the 'choice' should be made before conception.

[prairiebreeze]

The man and woman have a choice to prevent conception from the git-go or control themselves if wedlock isn't in the picture.

By insisting on a "right" to choose, you do in fact, sanction abortion. You can't argue around that,your distinction that you personally disdain it in your own circumstance or choosing, rings pretty hollow.

[WOSG]

"Abortion is something I do not believe in"

This sentence is non-meaningful in my view. Usually, "do not believe in" is used to decribed agreement to facts or beliefs; your sentence could be taken at face value to mena that abortion is fictional. It is not. It kills over a million preborn humans.

of course, you dont mean it that way. You mean it to say that abortion is something you dont personally want to do.
I have never considered *either* tattoos *or* shoplifting,
and find them both bad habits.. so are we to consider both of those morally equivalent? Of course not. Saying you wont consider some particular action says almost *nothing* about the actual moral choice at hand involved in either case.
tattoos - that's a choice matter; shoplifting - that's a moral issue. It could be a matter of zero moral import or of great moral import and the vacuous statement about 'not believing in it' tells us nothing of the gravity of the issue. Which is abortion more like - tattoos or shoplifting?

It hides the question we face as a society on abortion, which is: "Is the more than one million pre-born humans killed each year in America through abortion a tolerable condition or an abbhorent one that must be changed?"

If you can answer *that* question, we might be getting somewhere.

[Jorge]

"You must be personally for ANYTHING before you can believe in ANYBODY else has the right to choose it."

I respectfully disagree.

Actually I agree with you. My response was meant as sarcasm.