Abortion Yes or No?

Baby at 10 weeks.

There were recently votes here in Portugal on whether abortion should be legalized up to 10 weeks or not.

I myself am against abortion, except for certain cases.

I really can't understand some of the points as to why abortion is ok... I am totally for women having to decide over their own body, but should a person, any person, decide whether or not another human being gets to live or not? How can we decide "This is my body" and take away the life of someone who can't choose yet? That point of "the women must say what happens to their body" doesn't change my mind about abortion... And what does the father say about it? If she doesn't want, but he does, doesn't he have any right of choosing life for his child?

Why is it that most people are enraged by animal cruelty, animal killing and animal torture, but some of these people agree with abortion?

What about those girls who don't have the privilege as I do to have a loving family, a loving boyfriend and loving friends, who accepted my pregnancy, who didn't try to force or persuade me to get an abortion? Those girls who don't get to choose over their own body because others around her don't agree with a baby? Not everyone is free to choose over their own body...

How many girls will get an abortion without letting anyone know, or without letting the guy know that she was pregnant in the first place?

I don't agree on children coming in to the world to suffer, but who are we to choose the fate of a person who could be anything he chooses to be? Who knows what this person will become?

Having a baby is a life changing moment, but it doesn't have to be for the worse

What about putting up for adoption?

For you out there reading this and who agree on abortion, I am not judging anyone, I don't know what it's like to consider abortion, I don't know what other women who have had abortions (illegal and not) went through. I know it's easy to speak when we haven't gone through a certain situation. I just don't understand some things as to why people say abortion is ok, no matter how far along a person is.

My pregnancy was not planned, I was not living with my boyfriend at the time, coming from a belief that sex is after marriage and making the mistake to go against that (the flesh is weak), I got pregnant and if my boyfriend didn't want the child I would not have gotten an abortion, because I do not believe that is the right choice (for me). And I know FOR SURE that no one ever regrets that Kayla was born!! She is the joy of the family!! For those who thought I should get an abortion, definitely don't regret the choice of me having her.

Yes is was scary, yes I didn't know what kind of world she would be coming into, yes I didn't know what kind of mom I would be or if I'd be any good at it, yes I didn't know whether my boyfriend and I would make it, yes to many questions any parent would ask. But I would give it a try, I would love her, protect her, care for her, provide for her best I could. Things have not been easy, but the good surpasses the not so good and she lights up my day everyday, whether she's in a good mood or not, whether she's sick or not. I cannot imagine my life without her!!

So no, I am not for abortion and cannot understand the points of people who are for abortion, whether they be doctors, common people, politicians, whatever they are... I am not closed minded and it's not that I just won't accept other people's opinions, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and everyone is entitled to whether they accept it or question it...