Abortion--Brienne

Each of the candidate's views on abortion are very important. Abortion and its legality is a hot topic in today's politics. Obama has taken the steps to expand availability to contraception, thereby attempting to decrease the need for an abortion, which is a step that I fully agree with. If a woman doesn't get pregnant, then the need for an abortion no longer exists. However, he has been a pro-choice politician for several years, if not his entire career. He voted against banning partial birth abortion in 2007 and has voted yes to doing stem cell research. Basically Barack Obama is a far left liberal when it comes to abortion, which is really what I think is right. A woman's body is a woman's body. I don't feel that I would have an abortion, but until someone is put in that situation, they have no right to judge. However, I don't think I could ever support partial birth abortion. When you have to pull the fetus out of the mother and wait for it to die, it seems like you have waited too long. If a woman wants to get an abortion, I feel it is a decision that needs to be made early on. Hillary Clinton has many of the same beliefs as Obama, basically because they are both on the same party and with this subject, there is either the leftist belief or the conservative belief that abortion is either right or wrong. John McCain, on the other hand, has a much different view. McCain has had a pro-life view since the beginning of his career. He thinks that abortion isn't the best way to go, but it is OK if the woman was raped, which is not something I completely understand. I feel that if you see abortion as murder, then it should be murder no matter what. There shouldn't be exceptions. Now, I feel all women have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies, so it isn't like I am saying that a rape victim should have to have the baby if she gets pregnant. However, if you see abortion as murder, it should still be considered murder even if the pregnancy wasn't consensual. Something else that surprised me on John McCain's political views regarding abortion was that he supported federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which isn't typical of conservatives. Most republicans are against embryonic stem cell research since it kills the embryo, so in a way this is somewhat hypocritical. Adult stem cells can be obtained through extraction from the umbilical cord or placenta, so I could understand him supporting that, but embryonic stem cells are a different story. So it seems obvious that each party basically has a certain set of guidelines/opinions/views regarding abortion, with a few surprises thrown in here and there.