A lady friend of mine found herself once again at cross-roads contemplating whether to keep the baby or to go for an abortion,
This is one topic that a lot of people tend to shy away from, for obvious reasons, but i think it is something worth discussing in this forum,
Guys, let''s shed some light on the good, the bad, the ugly,
Abortion - Is it Good or Bad!!!

I don't think that there is a right or wrong answer to this question. As adults we are all aware of the consequences of having sex. If you don't want to get pregnant, you don't have to. Personally I am against abortion. I'm a single mother of a BEAUTIFUL little girl & although never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine being a single mother, I wouldn't swap her for anything in this world. It depends on the individuals situation. I don't think it's a form of contraception!!!!

Bad

It depends on the circumstances. Ordinarily, abortion is bad.
But on the other hand, abortion could be a virtue when there are serious health complications for the pregnant woman.

thanks all for your contributions thus far, my friend is getting over it and it helped her a great deal to know how other people felt about the issue too.
thanks once again.

i thank God i had that abortion. now he's misbehaving. what if i had kept it. i'll have been sad all my life

Abortion is very baad.infact many people who shuda bin aborted bt lived turnd out 2b great.bt its bin legalisd now reasns being that many young ladies av these children.sum just make d kids sufer,i'l neva do it.bt society and circumstance wud make any1 take decisions.if u'r not ready 2av a child.avoid gettin pregnant.

All d contributors had spoken well. In as much as i believe in respecting other people's opinions, i will also want to state categorically clear that, its d circumstances that determines whether abortion is good or bad. By virtue of religion, its bad. But if its by avoiding social vices, i think its good. Cos most of d guys unleashing terror in our society today are resultant effect of unwanted pregnancy that could have been aborted. So i think it will be better, if d doer of d act faces his or her warrant with God alone, than making d society unbearable for all. Afterall no son of man flourishes ina war zone. Flush out unwanted pregnancy so dat u can have rest of mind and d people will be able to sleep with their eyes closed later. But if u r doing it out of share waywardness, nemesis shall catch up with ya one day.

Abortion is not bad. If its necessary do it

Why bring a child into the world when you are so unsure about how you will raise that child. Imagine the number of children who get dumped in dumpsters everyday. Why bring an innocent child into the world to suffer.
Every child is entitled to a decent life.
I recently visited a very remote fishing settlement in Ghana. This village did not have any electricity, the roads were barely passable, no decent source of water, no healthcare, no school, no telephone, it was about an hour away from civilisation (by car).
When our vehicle arrived in this village, all the kids gathered around the car looking at us as if we were martians. The kids were practically naked (some were). The only source of living in that settlement was the ocean(fishing), farming and probably hunting.
The ratio of kids to adults was about 4:1.
I was at the point of tears when I saw this. You should have seen the way there faces lit up when we handed out 3 canned cokes and some biscuits to them to share (that was all we had).
Just imagine the future of those kids. They wake up everyday with nothing to look foward to. Is that how life should be? Is that the life any child should live? they did not choose that life, their parents did. Is that fair?
Look at sudan, despite the crisis in that country, people are still having sex and bringing kids into such conditions/envronment. Would any of us want to live that kind of life. If any of us were born into such conditions, I'm sure you will not even own a computer let alone be using the internet.
Look at the criminals in society today, most of them are from broken homes, crack babies, street kids, orphans and abandoned children.

I repeat, EVERY CHILD IS ENTITLED TO A DECENT LIFE. So if you know you cant provide that knid of life for that child, ABORT IT.

This is just my opinion.

What we should be preaching here is the method of birth control, there are so many unwanted children in the world. Abortion I believe is wrong the minute conception takes place it's a living being. Would you stand by and watch how a fetus is killed? One should always think before doing something they would regert later in life. Abortion can rob you of having children especially when the abortion goes wrong due to an infection.

I have to agree with queen b on this one! If you don't want to get pregnant, there are ways to prevent it.

this is getting really interesting, i am greatly impressed, ride on guys!

is bad period!!.

Abortion is bad don't take away an innocent life there are so many ways to prevent getting pregnant.

N-joy:

Abortion is bad don't take away [b]an innocent life [/b]there are so many ways to prevent getting pregnant.

I hope when that child grows up to become a thief or crook you will also consider him/her innocent. If my mama had given birth to me when she didn't have the means to cater for my upbringing, and I turned out to be a lowlife, I would never for give her.
What y'all seem to forget is that many atimes these preventive measures fail. Pills have after effects & condoms break. And some of these pregnancies are products of rape, drug dependency or even prostitution. I still believe that you should abort the kid instead of over-populating the earth.

People might come up with the argument of placing the child in an orphanage. But have you ever visited one before? The abuse most of those kids go through in those homes are equally as bad. Adoption is no better. Some of these parents are not fit to raise their own kids let alone raise someone elses.

Abortion is good/right when circumstances calls for it. Be it health reasons, financial or convenience.

@ His grace
Thank you, me not in Lagos.

@ Esss
Yes I agree with you on crime/poverty side of things, when I say innocent lives I meant the minute a baby is born he/she knows no evil till they grow up.They are the result of what a man and a woman did. So why should they be punished by death? Crime will still be committed through poverty or through white collar crime. Abortion is a topic not everyone will agree on. I disagree you agree. I believe men should take more responsibilities by using a  condom.

when they ask you this question tell them it is the badest sin a man can commit. Even if the pregnancy was gotten thru a rape or arm bandit,it must not be tampered with.

there are more to it but to put it simply,it is so bad that i can not be quantified

Abortion is not totally wrong, in some case where u have d babies already diagnosed of mental and physical disability before birth, it is ethical and even moral to abort to avoid the pain child and mother will suffer.

Moreover, i believe the woman has the ultimae right to choose what she wants to do, you cannot force someone to have a child when it will be obviously inconvenient for mother and child at the end of the day.

People should stop bringing religous and morally twisted sentiments into dis arguements.

@his grace
Abortion to me personally is wrong, we live in a world where we now have a choice to have or to abort a baby. We can only pray for those that didn't make it like you and I did.

It's bad, personally I don't agree with it (unless in certain circumstances like being attacked by a family member or something). But if you decided to start having sex and you get pregnant, you should deal with the consequences. Like someone once said "if you have recreational sex, then you should be prepared to have recreational babies." or something like that. . .

i don't agree with it, for the simple reason that if you don't want a baby use protection. (sexual assult exempt from my post thanks).

Hi PTBNaija,
i lke the way ou put the word "recreational sex", wow!!!
From a personal point of view, abortion s bad, but sometimes it may appear to be the way out in some circumstances instead of ruining the future happiness of both parties concerned.

Another male friend of mine, who has a beutiful fiancee, who he loves so much went and got another girl pregnant, Right now he is in a very difficult siuaion because the lady in question is not ready to do an abortion, He realises that he could lose his fiancee if she finds out and it troubles him the more,

He said it was supposed to be a fling and he was drunk and didnt know what he was doing, now he got himself in so much troubl and needs guidance.

Should he compel the girl to have the abortionor should he leave with the fact that there is a baby on the way that could ruin his relationship with his fiancee. He says that if he is able to convince this other lady to have the abortion, then he maynt let his fiancee know what had transpired at her back, but if the girl insists n keeping the baby, he would have to tell her and hope that she doesn't leave him,

One thing i know for sure is that he is very confused and needs guidance, This is a typical case where PREVENTION is certainly better than CURE,
Please comment.