Abortion

-Just because less women die from pregnancy in Ireland doesn't mean that having a baby in Ireland is safer than having an abortion. It just means that less women die from pregnancy in Ireland than in other countries. It's not relevant to the abortion argument. Ireland allows freedom of movement for those women who do want to have an abortion. If you're Irish and have an abortion in another country other than Ireland, you"re not breaking any Irish laws. Many women actually go to the UK to have abortions done. http://www.abortioninireland.org...-When I am discussing childbirth vs abortion I am pertaining to the number of women who die in childbirth. It is 14 times more likely that a woman will die from childbirth than from having an abortion. It shows it is safer for the mother to have an abortion than it is to continue with childbirth. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...-When sperm meets an egg - this will not always result in a human being. Complications happen. 10% to 25% of pregnancies within the first trimester end in a miscarriage. This can increase to 50% of pregnancies when a woman is over 45. http://americanpregnancy.org...I also think it's a woman's choice whether or not she wants to have an abortion or whether she wants to give her child up for adoption. It is not fair on the mother to have to have her body used as a vessel for nine months (considering she is 14 times more likely to die) with a fetus inside her that she doesn't want. What do we do about women who are suicidal and want to kill themselves and the fetus inside them?http://en.wikipedia.org... It seems a bit of an infringement on the woman's rights to her own body if she were told that she had to carry out the pregnancy when she obviously doesn't want it. The idea is that she shouldn't be used merely as a vessel for the unborn fetus.-My point here is that no one is blaming the fetus. The fetus is merely a consequence of a man's bad actions. It doesn't have anything to do with blaming the fetus at all. By aborting a fetus before 20 weeks means that the fetus has no guarantees, even if the pregnancy continues, that the fetus will end up being a healthy living human being. Many children die during childbirth or shortly after. The chances as a whole that the process ends up with a healthy human being is actually slim. Considering this, don't we want to have children born into a world with parents who are ready and able to take care of them rather than have children born to parents who simply aren't ready and might even hurt the child?-Granted, of course there will be certain individuals within certain organisations that might have very strong opinions on what they think is right. They sometimes force their opinions on others life decisions and I don't think that's right at all. I agree with you there. However, this isn't the majority of organisations or individuals within those organisations. Planned Parenthood isn't against having children - it's about allowing men and women choices for parenthood or potentially to not even be parents. http://www.plannedparenthood.org...-Going back to my final point from the previous round - women and girls should not be subjected to having back street abortions just because the law tells them what they should do with their bodies. Hundreds of women in Ireland died in the 1930's from backstreet abortions. Women in many other parts of the world continue to die from backstreet abortions. That's why they made it legal in Ireland to travel to the UK or other countries to have an abortion done elsewhere. Other countries have made abortions legal because of how dangerous it would be for a mother who doesn't want the fetus inside her, to have an abortion in an unsafe, unsterilized clinic. It is estimated that 20 million unsafe abortions worldwide are performed annually. Most of these are not in countries like the US or anywhere in Europe, but in developing countries. I feel much happier and safer to live in a society that I don't have to make the choice between having a backstreet abortion or having a child I don't want. http://en.wikipedia.org...