Pro-choice

The majority of people who get abortions are people who cannot afford to support and raise a child, victims of rape, and people who are at high risks of complications in their pregnancy

Women rights. Women HAVE and DESERVE rights, we are humans too and we should decide what to do with our bodies. I think and whole heartedly believe that we should choice when we want to bring children into the world and we should be able to make the decision without having the government do it for us.
The rape related pregnancy rate is 5% among victims who are at or above the age to reproduce, this is anywhere between 12 and 50! Imagine if you took away the right from a 12 year old girl! A girl who couldn't live her life properly because she has a child to take care of!
It is 11.7% of…  Read more these victims who immediately seek medical attention after the assault and 47.1% of those who sought medical care DIDN'T receive any. This means that 32.4% of rape victims went not knowing the were pregnant until they were in their second trimester, and after that 50% (SO HALF) of those women got an abortion! You cannot take that away just because it means getting rid of a child that is not even fully developed and has not been born! The child can't even make decisions for itself, but a woman can! Don't do it for her!

Pro-choice does not necessarily mean you agree with abortions. It means you agree with giving people the right to choose what they do with their life and body. The basic right of autonomy. While majority of people view abortions as a solution to being 'careless', there are so many more reasons that one may choose to have an abortion. It may be putting the mother at risk physically, mentally, or financially.

Nobody should be forced to carry a child if the pregnancy put the mother’s life at risk, was a result of rape or incest, is a non viable foetus, has extremely poor prognosis

Making abortion illegal won't stop abortions from happening, it will only stop them from being safe. 43% of abortions worldwide are illegal.

I don't see much point arguing or going any deeper than every woman has a right to decide what happens to her own body.

Women should have a right to chose what happens with their own bodies. there should be a limit of how late this can be, but in the first few months should definelty be their choice.

A woman should have the right to choose what happens to her body. It’s 2023 and abortion shouldn’t be something that one should be ashamed of. It’s a very difficult decision and is better than bringing a child into the world who will be in poverty or an unloving home.

The choice to terminate a pregnancy is the choice of the person who is pregnant. It is unlawful to make decisions about another person's body when there is no consideration given to their mental or physical health, nor the situation that child may be brought into. The child may end up in a hateful situation that was not their choice but society has forced them into due to policy. If the situation is bad enough then the child will go into "the system" causing further harm to society as their environment influences their behaviour and outlook towards their world.

Again I don’t have one. Anyone who is able to give birth has their own right to their own body and their own choices.

The human body (although capable) goes through so many changes and they are not always easy. There is also too many children who need loving families in NZ and that is evidence of why woman should have the right to choose. Money is another contributing factor. There are too many families on benefits who should have the right to not have children because they are already on the bottom of the income ladder!

The choice to terminate a pregnancy is the choice of the person who is pregnant. It is unlawful to make decisions about another person's body when there is no consideration given to their mental or physical health, nor the situation that child may be brought into. The child may end up in a hateful situation that was not their choice but society has forced them into due to policy. If the situation is bad enough then the child will go into "the system" causing further harm to society as their environment influences their behaviour and outlook towards their world.

There are over 24,000 children in foster care at the moment, and only 125 adoptions happening in the year 2020 . Thats thousands of children in foster care until they eventually age out with next to know help. By providing women with the right to choose we can reduce these numbers and have less and less children being given up and living a life parentless.

It is our basic human right to have autonomy over our body's and be able to make the choice to abort or not

The choice should always be there. For those who need it, for those who are too young, for those who aren't ready, who can't afford to care for a child.

Women should be able to choose. Not every birth is planned. We don't need more struggling kids on the streets

every year 1 in 30 women are raped almost all the time they can not control it and struggle from mental issues such as deppresion and ptsd after, women struggle so much they commit suicide sometimes. 2/3rd of female rape victims are the age of 12-17, at this age women's minds are not fully developed and not ready to have a child. A 12 year old can not care for themselfs let alone another child and their families may not have the money or room for another child.

Criminalising abortion does more harm than good. Instead of limiting abortions, it forces women to use more dangerous methods. It also disproportionately impact women from lower socioeconomic areas and rural areas who have less options

It’s just a right we should have because having a child is a huge decision and having a child could even kill the women if she is unable to give birth or grow the baby.

The extents of New Zealanders who concur fetus removal ought to be allowed according to individual decision or certain conditions are practically the same across various age gatherings and sexes, with the most variety found comparable to family pay.

Unwanted children should not be forced into this world. It’s hard enough with the children who are wanted

There’s nearly 8 billion people in the world, the planet is dying. People are struggling and you you want to force rape victims to make more people?

The human body (although capable) goes through so many changes and they are not always easy. There is also too many children who need loving families in NZ and that is evidence of why woman should have the right to choose. Money is another contributing factor. There are too many families on benefits who should have the right to not have children because they are already on the bottom of the income ladder!

About 43% of of abortions worldwide are illegal. Making it illegal wont stop it from happening it will only put women in more danger of harming themselves through either the carrying/birth of child, or dangerous methods of abortion.

The way that the country let alone the world is heading why should we not have a choice to or not to bring another live into thos messed up world.

It leads to significant deaths for women who seek desperate measurers and leads to unwanted uncared for damaged children

Nobody should be forced to carry a child if the pregnancy put the mother’s life at risk, was a result of rape or incest, is a non viable foetus, has extremely poor prognosis

Those who are pro life can go make decisions for their own bodies and stop trying to interfere with others for whom they do not know.

No one can know the mental state of another person.To give birth to an unwanted child may be too much for some women.It is not the right of others to make this judgement

there are over 6,000 children in state care in NZ according to the ministry of social development. why have unplanned pregnancies, products of rape or incest babies add to this statistic while also force a woman to put herself at risk to add to this.

Other people’s lives are not your decision, instead of focussing on what others are doing with their own bodies and pregnancies you should focus on looking after the children that already need support that are in foster care/ up for adoption.

its their body, future, life, health, we don't know the living situations and what happened, you cant chose for them, everyone this decisions in life and this is just another decision.

Terry Bellamak is an example of a pro-choice advocator. She is the former national president of ALRANZ, which is an national pro-choice advocacy group for abortion rights, law reform New Zealand. Terry Bellamak believes women should have the opportunity to take control of their own lives and to feel safe doing so. She wants to make all abortion services in New Zealand more accessible, including rural areas as she believes people situated in rural areas are ill-served when it comes to accessing abortion services as it cost more, in her opinion its a big equity issue. “People who seek abo…  Read morertion care receive different and demonstrably worse treatment then other people seeking health care.” It is in Bellamak’s interest to change this, she wants abortion to be treated as a health care and identified as one. Another outcome she seeks as an advocator for Pro-Choice is that she wants people of any day an age feel safe when it comes to talking or discussing opinions about abortion, because if we want things to change, we can’t be scared of speaking about it. Terry Bellamak has been involved in many social actions, including; Protests, helping run information website’s (such as ALRANZ), interviews such as Q+A, Abortion myth busters, among others. Though Bellamak shares many points of view they all circle back to the same topic, abortion. "the burden of a provider’s conscience must be rebalanced, so that it does not fall entirely on the patient to bear the cost in time, money, and trouble, which is how it currently stands. The status quo is absurd, because contraception is the means by which the number of abortions is reduced". She shares the ideology of liberalism, people should have freedom to live how they like. The ideology of liberalism also includes helping others, welfare programs, taxes to fund those who need help. This relates to the quote just shared, Bellamak believes people who decide not to have the child should not have to be solely responsible for the cost. She also shares the ideology of being a bit of a feminist as through being a pro choice advocate she advocates and supports the rights and equality of females, she values choice and freedom, human rights and justice.

Woman should have the right to do with their body whatever they want, especially in the case of rape as it not only takes a physical toll on the woman but also mental meaning it should be completely up to her on what she decides to do with her body

I'm not sure there is any convincing someone with this position until they or someone they know is affected. This is a selfish and deplorable position.

many woman die, are forced into poverty, forced into staying in an abusive situation, forced to give birth as a child, and ultimately destroy more lives than those that are being "saved".

If you were raped, would you want to raise the child who reminded you of that trauma? If you used all protection correctly, is it fair you should have to give up such a large part of you life due to fault in that contraceptive? If you couldn’t afford to support that child, would they be better off living a poor quality life without many essentials, or in a foster home bouncing through the system feeling unwanted and unloved when the outcome could have been prevented before the child even turn from a organism to a fully functioning person? If men could get pregnant, and they were the one who had to make these sacrifices raise this child, most would feel differently, but because it’s not them who have to undertake this what in some situations would be called as a burden it’s easy to judge right?

This women has to firstly carry the baby to full term, every day potentially relive the assault forced upon her. The mental torture and anguish of javing to give birth to your rapists baby. Forcing her to be the victim for 9 months, or longer if she keeps the child in her custody.

What if her life choice was also never to have children?
What of the baby, who one day may find out how they were conceived?

its a womans body, not the childs, not her husbands, not her rapists, not her mother in laws, people should be able to decide what happens to their own bodies

Women deserve the right to choose what to do with their body in the same way men can. It is women that have to carry that baby for 9 months. It is women whose careers get put on hold so that she can have said baby.
Women should be able to choose if they are ready to bring life into the world because so many women aren’t financially, physically and mentally ready to go thru with having a child especially if the circumstances in getting pregnant. So many women that get a abortion are either victims of rape or not in a situation where they feels ready to devote their life to a child for…  Read more the next 18 years.
If u were to ban abortions in this country - that wouldn’t stop them from happening. It just stops it from happening a safe environment. And this will crate more health issues.

We already have a high number of abortions it was recorded in 2020 that there were 186 abortions per 1,000 known pregnancies, pro-choice needs to stand as from 2015-2018 there was a total of 86,400 pregnancies manually, out of these 44,900 pregnancies were unintended where 13,100 of these ended in an abortion which is why we need to be pro-choice

No body should be forced to do something they don't want to do. It is a woman's right to be able to choose if they want to so something or not no matter your personal wants and beliefs.

its up to the women and her partner if they are relevant, having an unwanted child would be bad for the mother and child, being pregnant could also provide massive health risks so they are better to not carry

It's your body, your choice. Especially if the woman has been raped, she should not be made to carry the baby.

Women rights. Women HAVE and DESERVE rights, we are humans too and we should decide what to do with our bodies. I think and whole heartedly believe that we should choice when we want to bring children into the world and we should be able to make the decision without having the government do it for us.
The rape related pregnancy rate is 5% among victims who are at or above the age to reproduce, this is anywhere between 12 and 50! Imagine if you took away the right from a 12 year old girl! A girl who couldn't live her life properly because she has a child to take care of!
It is 11.7% of…  Read more these victims who immediately seek medical attention after the assault and 47.1% of those who sought medical care DIDN'T receive any. This means that 32.4% of rape victims went not knowing the were pregnant until they were in their second trimester, and after that 50% (SO HALF) of those women got an abortion! You cannot take that away just because it means getting rid of a child that is not even fully developed and has not been born! The child can't even make decisions for itself, but a woman can! Don't do it for her!

I can see how everyone’s lives and ability to raise children is so different and therefore I believe that each person should be able to make their own decision and do what is best for them. If someone is not comfortable with themselves, their bodies and their situation, how are they meant to make it comfortable with an extra being? Why bring a child into this world if they won’t get their best upbringing?

Because it is one of the biggest parts of human rights. There are many circumstances to why people get abortions. You cannot for a woman to destroy her life.

I should need to provide data or context. It is my right to choose what to do with MY body, it’s a basic human right.

The majority of people who get abortions are people who cannot afford to support and raise a child, victims of rape, and people who are at high risks of complications in their pregnancy

In a perfect world every child would be born to loving, consenting adults. They would be financially secure, in good health, at an age where they understood the pressure of raising a child and baby would have no defects to makel life intolerable or more complex than any other child.
Women need to be able to make the right choice for them.

There are dozens of reasons why women choose to abort. It may be because they were raped, or because it would be cruel to continue a pregnancy with a child that will never live or require immense medical support. I got pregnant on three different methods of contraception. I did not want children, but got pregnant regardless of contraception. I chose to have all of them, but nonetheless all women should be able to make this choice.

Lots of people have different beliefs. No group of people should be able to enforce their own personal opinions on other people to their detriment.

Abortion does not affect fertility meaning that you can have a baby whenever you feel like your ready and prevent a problematic situation if you are not.

I won't provide more reason for someone to agree with me. If they don't, that's up to them, ain't my circus.

Remains a personal choice, the woman alone knows her situation and what she can and can't cope with. Some woman in abusive and controlling relationships have contraception deliberately with-held. As for victims of rape and incest, they had no choice when the person who abused them did so without consent, do not re-victimise them by making them have a child - the experience will be another lifetime reminder of the abuse, and what of the child born into that situation???

A woman or girl must have autonomy in this respect. Criminalising abortions does not prevent them, it only makes them unsafe. Worldwide, 43% of abortions are illegal.

You are more likely to bury a daughter who has been denied an abortion from a seriously traumatic rape as she tries to abort it herself at home.

Just because the option is there doesn't mean you have to use it. Why do you get to take that option away from others?

I don’t believe that it is my place to convince anyone on this subject. I do believe in minding my own business.

It’s just common sense, protect the people that already live and exist and pay your goddamn taxes over a cluster of cells that can’t live outside of that women choosing to carry it and bring it to life. If it cannot survive without the women carrying it and it’s not harming her life then it shouldn’t be included as life yet.

You can't reason with people with data or context, typically their minds are made up and are usually stooped in religion.

Go get yourself raped and then let us know what it was like when someone took that choice away from you and your body. It may not be the same as a Fetus that is barely a thing, but the concept is the same

The rape related pregnancy rate is 5% among victims who are at or above the age to reproduce, this is anywhere between 12 and 50! Imagine if you took away the right from a 12 year old girl!

67 out of 195 countries allow abortion. 128 countries do not. Women all around the world do not have the right to get rid of a child even if the can not look after them or have health conditions meaning they can die from pregnancies.

Anyone who is Pro-life with a phone or access to any News information clearly doesn't have the ability to realize what a ridiculous mindset they have.

Rape victims shouldn't be pressured into keeping the unexpected baby. We as a country need to focus on people having a multitude of babies with no mends to support them.

Many of the people who oppose abortion are religious, and yet studies (e.g. by the Guttmacher Institute) consistently show that most people who access abortion (in particular in the US) are religious.

At this point its common sense. no women, teen or child in fact should have to go though that pain if they don't want to.

If you have a problem with it and it’s not your body then it’s really none of your business. I’m sure you do things that others don’t agree about.

It’s the mother’s body therefore it’s no one else’s choice. Just because someone else shares a different belief doesn’t mean you get to choose for them

I strongly support a pro-choice stance on abortion. It's crucial to respect personal autonomy, allowing individuals to make decisions about their own bodies. Legal abortion is essential for the health and well-being of women, preventing unsafe procedures. Unplanned pregnancies can arise from complex situations, and legal access provides a humane solution. It also respects diverse moral and religious beliefs while promoting public health and safety. Looking at history and international comparisons, legalizing abortion has improved women's lives and reduced maternal mortality. Furthermore, it can contribute to addressing concerns about overpopulation and resource strain

Allows a possible life saving operation to be able to be done immediately without the doctor having to make sure they won't be charged.

Everyone has their own choice to do what they want to do with their own body and should be given this right

If your pro choice then you have already decided to enforce your will onto others and there own body choices, why would you enforce someone to live a harmful unwanted life? Do you really want someone to live unwanted or struggle with life in a bad family situation?
We all must have our own choices on our own bodies and future.

Only 1% of abortions take place after 21 weeks in the USA. Half of women getting abortions report that they used contraception during the month they became pregnant, so abortion is not being used a birth control.

Again, women’s body, her rights. If she is not in a healthy state (physically, mentally and emotionally) to have a baby, then she should have the RIGHT to choose. She may or may not do it and it is up to her but she should have that option!

Abortion is the deliberate ending of a human life, and is immoral regardless of circumstance. No matter how tragic the situation e.g. poverty, abuse, disability, potential hardship, abortion is never the answer. Adoption and parenthood are choices, and there are also choices to be made which would reduce the amount of unwanted pregnancies in the first place. Contraception use, but also educating people on the importance of a healthy and loving relationship vs the prevalence hook-up cultures. Abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of the mother, even in situations where her health is at risk.

1 of 5 women are victims of domestic and sexual violence. It would be a significant number of women who are burdened with the trauma of caring for a child of their attacker.

It is up to the individual who is pregnant to decide if they want an abortion or not. This is not a dictatorship and you CANNOT tell a woman what to do with her body. EVER!!! It is no one else's business but the person who is pregnant.

People should have the right to choose how they want to live there life. What if they can’t afford to have a child because they keep getting taxed too highly on everything.

Woman’s choice , woman’s right to abortion ! Woman shouldn’t have go carry a baby that’s either been forced upon them unwilling or accidentally.

Women have the right to change their minds about whether or not they wish to keep a baby. Especially women who have been impregnated without consent. From previous experiences, being forced to keep a baby is traumatizing and tiring mentally. Many women feel trapped and unable to voice their needs if they are forced to keep a baby. We have a right to abort, as it is our body that endures the stress and pain and it will be a life saver if women had the choice to abort.

Your body, your choice. If you have a choice for medical operations or if you want treatment or not, why cant people have a choice on whether or not you want or need an abortion? If woman get raped and sexualy abused and fall pregnat due to that and are not allowed to get an abortion theyn why cant the perpatrator not have a choice as well and get castrated completely and sent to prison for life? People shouldnt be micro managed on what they belive is the best option for them and their body?

People can be impacted by others, in circumstances like this then options should be available to those who could be effected for the rest of their lives

If you don't agree that's fine but don't take the choice from some stranger whos baby is going to kill them or some 12 year old who was raped by a uncle or brother statistic shows that more often than not its some one in your family circle so agree with me or ill tickle your kneecaps and find you and take your dog and family <3

Why would u expect women that are raped to have a baby? The men who rape are not forced to keep the baby

I am also against pro life because what if you get raped and because of the rules you then have to keep your rapists child. Imagine how much that would affect you and your mental health.

The fetus is not a human when the woman is in the time range to have an abortion. It is a lot different to kill a fetus then to kill a living person who has a life / has lived a life.

I have no statistics but could go back in history to the time before abortions were legalised and find statistics on the number of women who died - as well as their potential offspring - in back street abortions. Making abortion illegal does not prevent it happening.

There are also stories of women in Ireland, which is strongly against abortion for religious reasons, where women whose child has died inside them are refused an abortion so they subsequently became infected as the child decays and they too die. Such rigidity is totally unacceptable. Not to mention rapes etc.

There are so many cases of women being powerless to prevent intercourse and therefore being unable to make the initial decision to refuse impregnation which makes such arguments as they should have "kept their legs closed" totally offensive and inadequate.

MY BODY MY CHOICE NO ONE ELSE'S BUSINESS if they have a problem with what I do with my body they can pay for the expenses and the therapy required

It's not an issue of convincing as pro-life is an ideology not a scientic position. The underpinning belief systems need to be exposed and discussed before bringing research or statistics to the table.

Now that we have the ability to have abortions safely, women (and families) have the opportunity to evaluate whether or not they want to raise a child. If they cannot provide a safe and healthy environment for another human, who am I to say they shouldn't have the right to abort a fetus?

If you are pro-life you're probably bitter and too old to even be alive and see the baby that didn't get aborted be born.