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[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?

[juliar]

all of that should be illegal.

abortion...seriously, its the killing of other human being, regardless of its a cell.. its still killing it.

euthanasia...nah, it shouldnt be illegal. what about people in a vegetable state?
assisted suicide...omg..make it stop!

Abortion should be legal. It's a cell, but it's not truly reached the point of LIFE yet, so technically you're not killing it.
Assisted Suicide isn't good. ILLEGAL IT DAMMIT. It's like murder. Or accomplices. The assistor gets blamed for the real guy's problems-a whipping boy.
This should be legal but only to a certain extent. If someone murdered someone else, they could be saying it was because that person was in critical condition, and therefore they had the right to kill them, when the victim may not have really had wanted it to happen.
I know, I don't make sense.

[F_L_I_P]

I know this one krn grl but i dont think shes having an abortion

[rOckThISshYt]

1. i think abortions should be leagal becuase not only can a baby destroy a young woman's life, it can destroy the childs'. i mean, say the mom is 14... or even 12.... how is the girl suposed to take care of that baby? but then there's adoption.... it's a wonderful thing. but preganancy at such a young age can be fatal to the baby anyway.... and the mom too.
2. the whole asisted suicide i dont like. i for one understand suicide and do believe that if it comes to it, something must be done, but you dont help someone do it. you help them by being at their side and trying to help them through good times and bad.
3. i do agree with the pulling the plug thing. at some point life can be torture and last that way the rest of the journy. i dont believe in torture so if it came down to it... i know i'd want to die so give the person some help.

~Julia~ xoxo *smooches*

[Evony]

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.

euthansiA is actually painful,AND this shit Can be abused, its illegal in SA but its weird ad questinable. militias killing all pEopling anyways

[multifaceted]

1. I'm not really sure about this one. Yes, it is killing a human, but if someone raped me and I became pregnant, I would want to have an abortion. So it could go either way.
2. I find this one stupid. If you want to take your own life, then go ahead. Why make someone else's life miserable watching a person die by their own hand? Include the fact that they might be suspected in killing that person.
3. This one I am also no sure on. If it was my pet that was dying from some painful disease, I would like to put it our of its misery and let it go to heaven, a more happier place. With other animals, I don't know what I would do.

[*My Cinderella.*]

I feel this is more appropriate in Debate. Feel free to disagree.

[kimmytree]

1) Abortion - definately should not be used as a form of "birth control". If someone just "accidentally" gets pregnat by fooling around, then thats their problem. They did it knowing that getting pregnat would be a possibility. BUT, if a woman/girl has been raped, if the mothers life is in danger, or if doctors think the child will be born severely disabled - then I think it should be allowed, with consent of a judge or something. But then again, if it's made illegal, people are still going to do it, in an unsafe way.

2)assisted suicide What the heck? No.

3) Euthanasia Yes, I think it should be allowed, ESPECIALLY for cancer patients. Cancer patients have to suffer so much before dying. If someone has been diagnosed with being terminally ill with any disease, and are suffering, then they have every right to be euthanized... its so much more of a peaceful way of going. But when it comes to people who have been injured and are on forms of life support, then no... unless they've been on it for awhile and are showing no signs of improvement. My cousin was in a wreck 2 years ago and was on lung dialysis for 3 weeks, and kidney dialysis for over a month - and only had a 5-10% chance of partially recovering with his kidneys. But somehow he's totally fine now. So in cases like that, there's always the possibility of someone being able to bounce back.

[Kontroll]

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.

1. No. It shouldn't be legal because the Preamble states that our prodginy[sp?] have the same rights as we do.

2. I feel that suicide in general is wrong, so for me to say that this would be right is hypocritical. I'm religious, so most of you probably won't agree.

3. First of all...Hitler didn't mercy kill the Jews. He did it out of hatred because he felt they were inferior to the Aryan race. Pain is apart of life. Just because you have pain that doesn't give you the right to kill some one. That's like saying that I killed my friend because he was really depressed and he asked me to do it. Would I get arrested and eventually convicted of a murder? Yes. Why is this any better?

[the-sydney327]

Here is my thing on abortion....YOU CAN BE PRO-LIFE IN A PRO-CHOICE WORLD!!! I would never abort my baby but that is a choice that i make. So really if you are against abortion then DONT DO IT! its as simple as that. Dont make other people suffer just because of your own personal beleifs.

now about asissted sucide, DEFINITLE NOT! This is not somthing that should be legal, no ones life is so bad that it cant get better. And its completely wrong to help someone kill anyone....

now heres the part where ill probably sound like a total hypocryte, but...

Mercy killing is ok, because If someone is in so much pain that they are suffering everyday, or if they are in a vegitative state that they can not come out of, then why not? you are helping them. And hitler DID NOT USE EUTHENASIA ON THE JEWS. he MURDERED THEM geuss what people...THATS DIFFERENT!

[Comptine]

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.

Hitler practiced eugenics, a social philosophy to eliminate/purge society of the "undesirables" (disabled, certain races). Not euthanasia.

1) We have an abortion thread for a reason. It is a tired and seemingly endless argument. I've participated in this several times. I'm not going to do it again in reply to three questions. Nonetheless, pro-choice.
2) We also have a thread of this.
3) In extreme, terminal illness cases. Under heavy supervision.

[hitoshirezukizu]

1.) Abortion--I too am kind of neutral in this area. I really think it all depends on the kind of situtation you're in. I mean, for example, if you were a rape victim, and became pregnant that way, I could definitely see why you would want an abortion. I could never imagine telling my child that they were a mistake, they weren't supposed to be here, they were a "rape child", and why daddy is never there. DEFINITELY not in those exact words, but that's just to be short, blunt, and to the point. You could adopt, but I personally would be afraid because the child might want to--one day--meet the real parents.

In other cases, however, where the women was just too lazy to take birth control pills, or forgot to, or the man refused to put the condom on, etc., that's inexcusable. That is where, I think, abortion should NOT be used. Adoption is fine, I suppose, but abortion is unfair.

2.) Assisted Suicide--I think this should definitely be illegal. Period. There's not really an explanation to this.

3.) Euthanasia--This one..this one I'm not quite sure on. Once again, as with the abortion matter, I think it could go either way depending on the situation. If someone is absolutely in pain, suffering and such, terminal illness, etc., then I think it's okay. But otherwise, meh, not really.

So yeah...hope you all like my opinions on the matter.