Abortion
 

So, when the word abortion comes up, pretty much everyone has a VERY strong opinion on the subject; weather you support it or oppose it. This thread is not a debate thread. Rather, it is a thread in which we celebrate abortion for one of it's lesser recognized by-products, ENDLESS hilarious jokes.

There's an abortion clinic a few blocks from my house, which I walk by on my way to work every day. A few times, I've seen the same two little old ladies on the street next to it, walking up and down carrying signs saying things like "abortion is murder!" and the like, and sandwich boards sporting the same boring, overused slogas. I've been sooo tempted to run up to them, and say:

"oh my god! is that actually an abortion clinic!? OH THANK GOD!!! do you think it'll still be open when I get off work at 6?!"

just to see the looks on their faces before i run off in a feigned panic. It would be fun to take advantage of the fact that they would definitely not be able to see the humour in abortion.

I was at a bonfire recently, it's fun to refer to the coat hangers you use to roast marshmellows as "DIY abortion sticks"

"hey man, pass me the abortion stick will you?"

so no matter where you stand on the issue, you HAVE to admit, abortion can be HILARIOUS!

Whats blood red, a mess and runs up a womans' leg?

A homesick abortion.

I enjoy gallows humor quite a bit, and I thought it was very hillarious when South Park joked about it. But it is something I take very seriously, I'm strongly against it.

I'd be interested to see a puppet show in which all of the puppets were aborted feotuses. They could have a song, sung to the tune of Vengaboys "Boom Boom Boom Boom" which would have the hookline...

"Boom boom boom boom, don't want me in your womb"

And a dance routine involving a vacuum cleaner and a barbecue.

"fetuses have feelings too" - oojay

the funny part is hes republican

My last step dad used to offer people abortions, with a baseball bat and a bucket. Didn't work on me though, I crawled out before the lid snapped shut.
My brother was only saved 'cause someone yelled out "Don't flush it, it's got eyes!"

You guys are ****ed up. I don't really have strong feelings on Abortion, do what you need. Its not my kid.


is it?

That sounds like the title of a talk show episode. And after the break "My father isn't really a hermaphrodite. Is he?"

That made me laugh Ethan hahaha.
Anywhoooo abortion isn't always bad, it depends on the situation. Rape, being broke, their's all sorts of situations people don't take into consideration before they start casting stones.

dead babies everywhere
mmmm
w/e abort me jesus
yeh
i dont really agree

I always find that the people who are most against abortion are usually also the biggest arguments FOR abortion.

it really wouldnt bothe rme
except
myspace
makes me look at thso gross bulletins with dead ****
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im against people who bitch about abortion

I agree.



wait...we agree!?!? CRAZY!

i don't care either way. it's up to the individual not a bunch of do gooder samiritans.

and yes two girls i've been with have had them.....their decision not mine, afterall they have to carry it for 9 months

My stance on it too.

Anyway back to abortion jokes...

lolfetus!

I dont see how anybody can have the right to tell somebody abortion is wrong. Things happen in life, rape, faulty birth control, decepetion etc which results in a pregnancy. Now, not every adult is fit to be a parent, for reasons of lifestyle or whatever, it would be a lot crueler introducing a new born to a life of neglect and mistreatment than to abort. And for some adoption is just not an option. Each to their own i say, and people who bleat on about whether its right or wrong annoy the hell out of me.

Nah, I'm with Stu. Banning abortion just leads to an underworld of backstreet abortion, which is VERY messy and MUCH more damaging to both society and individual.

shh im trying to annoy him.

lol, Stu is very ***. He should be aborted. NAOW!

Can't happen to me so I don't give a sh*t.

And to think Oojay thought I was a liberal.

Bumping this for dat controversy.

I definitely lean left on most political and moral subjects, but with abortion I just don't see how it's not considered killing (murder is a strong word that is interpreted by society as such, so I will avoid it's usage).

When you abort, you are partaking in an action that prevents a human being from living. If you had not committed the action, the human being would have lived, and I haven't really seen any sort of compelling evidence that suggests otherwise.

I'm pro-life too, but this is an abortion joke thread.

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Oh, well then don't mind me :pimp:

I don't think anyone considers it not killing. I guess many just feel that sometimes, it's okay to kill a fetus.

Really? Ok, if we can move past that then I will say that I'm undecided as to whether I'm pro-life or pro-choice.

Though I do find it interesting when people say that circumcision should be left up to the decision of the child, but abortion up to the parents is ok. What's the difference there?

The circumcised child will live the rest of its life with mutilated genitalia, but the fetus obviously won't live the rest of its life as an abortee ;)

Fair enough, just some points I've been considering about the controversial subject.

On a more serious note, when there's an abortion, the fetus probably doesn't know what's happening. It doesn't regret its parents decision to abort it. It doesn't reflect on the life it could've had. It's probably not affected by the abortion emotionally. It's just snuffed out. The ones potentially hurt by the decision to abort or not are the parents, so they get to make the decision. They are the ones capable of reflecting on the situation mentally and emotionally so they are the ones who deserve the most consideration from a certain moral point of view.

When there's a circumcision, the one who (potentially) gets hurt is the kid.

I am Democrat but when it comes to Abortion, I am no fan of it. However I am pro-choice because I know some people will see my views entirely different from mine.

Can't say I expected this.

I consider abortion killing an unborn child. I'm against killing in general (war, death penalty, etc. etc.), therefore I am against abortion.

If you don't consider it a human being yet, then morally, the destruction of a "fetus" doesn't matter. If you consider it a yet-developed person, it suddenly gets a lot trickier.

Anyway, I just noticed the thread, so I figured I'd throw in my two cents.

I think the general consensus is that it's not a human, so that human right don't apply. At least from the pro-choice school of thought.

I'm pro choice.

First off, in such life and death situations, I think how much moral consideration you should give someone (or something) comes down to how affected it is by the decision, the capacity for feeling pain or happiness about that decision. As an example, you could morally consider to take someone who was a complete vegetable off life support. It's because someone who is that brain damaged lacks the capacity to reflect on or even care about that decision. However, you would probably not consider taking someone who was fully mentally and emotionally functional off life support.

When it comes to the yet-developed person point, for myself, I find it tricky to give a fetus the same moral protection as a healthy adult person because it isn't. Treating it as the person it could be is a fantasy scenario to me. You don't know what's going to happen to this fetus even if you don't abort so you're setting aside the parents wishes in order to morally protect a person who does not even exist yet.

Needless to say, in the question of abortions, I think it is better to make decisions based on the present than what could be.

Yeah I'm in agreement. The baseline human drive is to live, but that desire and drive only initiates with the functioning of the human brain. Without it, there is no desire or care either way so it is, as you said like a person in a vegetative state. To extend human rights to something that is not yet human just doesn't make much sense.

Being that I am 100% pro-choice I think it's up to the woman to decide whether it's human to her or not.

The implication is that if it's human, it should be entitled to human rights and no other man or woman should have a say in it. If it's not, then it's up to the woman to decide if she wants to keep it. Thats my opinion at least.

To some people, it's a clump of cells. To others, it's a human being. However, it should never take precedent over a grown woman. That's what people seem to be missing lately, what with the whole Savita thing in Ireland :( I think that if it's your body you're carrying it with, then you define what it is to you: parasite or child.