Instead of polling whether one is pro-choice or pro-life, I am going to do something different. I will try to use a less emotionally charged and hopefully more accurate terms - For/Against-Legalizing-Abortion (this thought was triggered by another member on this board in the partial abortion poll).
Here is the twist. The poll will ask you your feeling on abortion at different stages of development before the the mother gives birth. We stick to the clinical description so we are going to have zygote, embryo, and fetus. Oh, in the fetus case, the poll also put a special case for partial abortion.
Just so everyone is on the same page, follow are the definition of zyote, embryo, and fetus for the purpose of this poll.
Zygote - From conception to about 2 weeks. Toward the end of the zygote stage, it is probably about a millimeter in diameter. This is the stage before it is completely embedded in the uterine wall.
Embryo - Around week 3 to week 8. It is when the zygote is completely embedded in the uterine wall.
Fetus - Around weeks 9 till just before birth.
You can pick more than one choice in the poll also.
One more thing, when you vote "For", for example, it means you are for legalization abortion at that stage of development under all or most circumstances. If you feel it should not be legalized in most case with one or two exceptions, then pick "Against". If you have exceptions, then state your exceptions in the thread.
What else, when you vote "For" whatever, it just means you are for legalizing it, it does not necessary means you are "pro" it in terms of taking an active role to encourage it. So you may be for legalizing fetus abortion but you might even take an active role to discourage it, but the final decision is up to the person. So this poll is a little bit different, it is asking for "legalizing" it or not, not whether you are "pro" or "anti" abortion.
The poll is flawed... I am pro-choice, but would never consider an abortion myself. The choices in the poll are limiting and do not reflect real life situations.
No matter what the situation, I cannot help but always go back to one thing:
"Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I santified thee..." Jeremiah 1:5.
Life is life. "zygote" "fetus"or "human."
One more thing...I believe we should all have control over our own bodies. But why is it that when it comes to abortion ("my body, my right to choose") almost NO ONE ever mentions that their is a father who should have a say in it?
regularRN
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The poll is flawed... I am pro-choice, but would never consider an abortion myself. The choices in the poll are limiting and do not reflect real life situations.