here is a serious question, ... Options

[Tal_Dara]

Ok I am going to ask a serious question, and I want serious answers to them. So if you are going to be dumb about it then dont reply to this thread.

Should these things be legal/illegal in the United States and why?

1.) Abortion
2.) Assisted Suicide (in otherwards you assist someone into killing themselves)
3.) Euthanasia (basically this is also known as a mercy killing, like if someone is in pain and you pull th plug, of course Hitler used Euthenasia on the Jews dont forget)

Like I said serious replies only please. This question came up in my Political Science class, and I found it very interesting. I then decided to see what others felt about it.

[GinaDaQueen]

1. Abortion- I know this may be the un-Christian thing to say, but I think it should be legalized. Just because it's legal doesn't mean everyone is going to do it. They should at least have the choice. If it's illegalized, this is taking away the choice of the people, which is the natural-born right of the human being. Also, even if it's illegalized, people are going to do it illegally anyway, probably using a more dangerous method. By professional doctors handling abortion, it guarantees a safer method than the "hanger method", you know? And an undeveloped baby fetus may be up to debate whether it's living or not. It's all subject to opinion. Abortion is not the same as killling a born baby. A fetus is not fully developed and has no capabilities to do anything.

2. Assisted Suicide- As in physician assisted suicide, aka Dr. Kevorkian? I think it should be legal but only in extreme cases where the patient is feeling unbearable pain. It should not be a way to commit suicide, for a healthy person.

3. Euthanasia- It should be legal, because people should feel as less pain as possible. If a person is going to die anyway from cance or some other form of disease, it's senseless to let that person suffer when he could have a quick painless death. The person must agree to it, however. The cases of people in a vegetative state can be argued... by the family, not the physician's recommendations.

Euthanasia on animals is another touchy subject, since animals aren't exactly given a choice whether they want to be euthanized or not. I was watching this dog shelter documentary on Discovery, and temperamental dgos were put to sleep. Some weren't even that "bad". It's not fair that this dog should die for having the potential to bite someone. It's not like he bit anyone, and it's not fair that they should die for their natural instinct.