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.

[thisisallme]

1 - I think that abortion should be legal. I am not saying that I personally would choose this option if I were to get pregnant, but I think that people should still have the option. What if a girl was raped and got pregnant as a result? Yes, there is adoption, but is it really her responsibility to carry out the pregnancy she had nothing to do with? Also, some women are too ill to carry out a pregnancy without putting their own lives in danger... they shouldn't have to face that. And sometimes mistakes do happen. I don't really like the idea of people using it as 'birth control', but I think that if somebody becomes pregnant at a time which is really going to affect the rest of her life (such as in high school or college) she should be able to have that option...

2 - I think that this should be illegal. As horrible as this is probably going to sound, if a person is really suffering to a degree in which they feel they need to end their life, I think that they shouldn't try to drag another person into the situation to help them do it. If they feel that they need to die that badly, they should take care of buisness themself, it wouldn't lead to problems for the 'assistor' in their life later on...

3 - I think that this one should be legal. If somebody was in a horrible accident and lost all of their brain activity and were only being kept alive by machines, what good would it be?