Abortion Debate - Clarksburg, WV

captain obvious wrote:

I feel only emergency abortions should be performed. Taking unborn life because it isn't convenient is morally wrong.

AriesBratt wrote:

I hear many different arguments for and against abortion. However, do you want to know what I think is even more sad? Children being born unwanted and put into the foster system to face neglect, assault, rape, and the feeling of being unwanted and not understanding why, blaming themselves for no one wanting them. That leads to self-destruction, not a productive life.

Captain Obvious 88 wrote:

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What percentage of children does that actually happen to? Any primary sources to cite?

usa wrote:

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Shut up captain obvious you should have been in that percentage. "As being unwanted"

Captain Obvious 88 wrote:

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What percentage of children does that actually happen to? Any primary sources to cite?

AriesBratt wrote:

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I'm not here to site sources, its common sense what happens in foster care. However, my personal opinion is, I do not feel that abortion should be completely illegal because:
1) The government should have no say what a female does with her body.
2) There are legitimate reasons when abortion should be considered.
3) There are not enough adoptive parents in the world to take the unwanted children that would suffer in the foster system.
4) This topic should not be a unisex topic that is debated and voted on, it directly effects the female population more than it does the male population. Men do not have a clue what a female goes through when they become pregant, do not have to deal with the emotions, the complication, etc.
If this is passed whats next, forced sterilization? female circumcision?

AriesBratt wrote:

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I'm not here to site sources,

Captain Obvious 88 wrote:

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Oh just so you know; it's cite not site:
Verb: Quote (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, esp. in a scholarly work.

Captain Obvious 88 wrote:

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This is a debate, if you are going to assert something you should be prepared to provide evidence to back your claim. That is kind of how debates work.

Captain Obvious 88 wrote:

According to a 2010 study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children & Families on page 25 it states that "Of all children in foster care during the reporting period, what percent were not victims of a substantiated or indicated maltreatment by foster parents or facility staff members?"
The percentage was 99.68% So .32% were victims of substantiated or indicated maltreatment by foster parents or facility staff members.
It sucks that it is .32% of them may have been abused but that is a very small percentage and nowhere high as you had eluded it to be.
Here is a link for that report:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm10/...

mommy of 1 wrote:

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That being said what do you have to back up your knowledge on this debate. You have nothing but your opinion of what you think just like everyone else.