I think just because they are married it doesn't mean they should have the child if it is unwanted. If it ends up impacting the child (ie one parent or both resent it because it wasn't wanted) that would be horrible. Worst if it breaks up the marriage and it is because of the child....I am all pro-choice. If you are not ready..don't have a child.

What's worst? An abortioned fetus or a mistreated, unwanted child. I know it's worst to be a neglected child.

I agree with CYL. I'm pro-choice in all circumstances.

i don't believe in abortion- for myself, however i do not believe anyone has the right to tell a woman that she cannot have an abortion. i am all about the woman's right to choose and just because she is married and stable doesn't mean that she should lose her rights and just go through with an unplanned unwanted pregnancy.

NOBODY should be forced to have a child they don't want, regardless of marital status.

I'm pro-life when it comes to my own decisions, and while I think abortions are wrong, and I have the right to express my opinion, I don't have the right to tell someone else what they should or should not do. By my standards, abortions are heartless, irresponsible and immature acts, but they'll never cease to exist. If you're married and you get an abortion you TRULY need to reevaluate yourself and your relationship.

If you're not ready to have a child while married just practice safe sex. Another term I hate is when married couples have a child that was an "accident". No child is an accident. If you're an adult, married at that, having sex there are high chances that you could get pregnant. I'm pro-choice but if you're not ready just take precaution.

I am pro-choice no matter your marital status. If you are not ready or do not want a child that is your decision. An abortion is not always an easy decision for a woman. Just because you are married does not ever mean you are ready for a child both mentally or financially.

I'm pro-life personally, but I have never nor will I ever judge anyone who is not. That being said, I hate it when people use abortion as their birth control method of choice, single, married, whatever. Use condoms, the pill, whatever you need to do. I hate these words unwanted, unplanned, accident when referred to pregnancies

I think an unwanted child has the same inpact on a commited relationship than it has on a teenage girl and her high school boyfriend - it may make you unhappy, you may never treat your child the way you would have in a place in your life where you wanted to have one, and it will change your relationship forever, possibly turn it into a negative direction it would have never taked otherwise.

The right to choose (in my opinion) does not change when you marry and I think that for some people, it is even about the right to choose between a happy and an unhappy life (which makes the entire point for me - I want people to be able to live a happy live), basically: the life they chose for themself.

I think my view does change. Although I've always been pro-choice, I also always knew that the older I got, the more responsibility I would have to take for my own decisions (so I'm excluding rape situations here) and the less appropriate abortion would seem as an option. Additionally, I think that if you are an married couple that is not practicing safe sex that results in unwanted pregnancies, then you are coming very close to crossing the line of using abortion as a form of birth control- which is as physically unhealthy as it is mentally.

I'm pro-choice in any situation.

I don't think anyone uses an abortion as their birth control method of choice, can you imagine someone actually premeditating on getting an abortion if they did get pregnant? And its easy to say just use birth control, the article discusses this more. Women in their 20s having lower rates of health insurance and I would therefore assume the pill can be an out of reach expense for a lot of them (I know with health insurance I pay 25 bucks per month, without it its 50). I wish they would make birth control methods more diverse (hello? where is that male pill?) and affordable and I'm sure the abortion rate would decline.

I wanted to say on how impressed I am with the comments that have been posted. I am new to Popsugar,and on other sites topics like this grow into a huge war of words. You have all shown maturity and respect in your posts. Abortion is a difficult decision at any point in a woman's life.

I agree with a few others here...I'm pro-life when it comes to my own personal life (as in, I don't think I could ever get an abortion) but I wouldn't tell others what to do about their situation or outlaw it.

HOWEVER, I do not like it when abortions are used just as birth control, just because a surprise pregnancy may be slightly inconvenient for the couple. I have done several research papers on abortions and over 70% of women who get abortions do it because it interferes with their lifestyle and only 1% get it due to rape & incest (I'll post links in the next post). If you are using birth control 100% of the time, then there is a very small chance that you can get pregnant. My godmother didn't want children so she used birth control for her whole life and she never managed to get pregnant, but she said she would keep the baby if she did pregnant. I have heard so many stories about how people "accidentally" got pregnant even though they insist they were using birth control, but later they admit "Oh I forgot to take the Pill one day" or "He didn't pull out in time" or "I was switching between birth control pills and I didn't use a second form of protection just in case." I'm not saying that you can't get pregnant on the Pill, but it's highly unlikely.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/psrh/full/3711005.pdf

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html

I'm pro-choice, but like so many others I disagree with abortion. I think in 99.9% of abortions it's because of irresponsibility and not a circumstance that I would feel warrants an abortion. But I'm not going to tell anyone they shouldn't do what they choose. If they ask me, yes, I'll give my opinion but ultimately it's their choice, not mine.

just because people are married doesn't mean they are mature/responsible/fiscally prepared enough to have a child

no one should have to share their reason for having an abortion anyway. it's no one's business but the couple's

I don't think that being married means they should have the baby.

Sonya, just because someone is married or in a committed relationship doesn't mean that they don't necessarily want the child and need to reevaluate their situation.

Married couples are often older and the woman simply has a greater chace of (1) miscarrying, (2) having a child with defects or (3) dying herself during childbirth simply because of her age.

My own mother had to have an abortion when she was 50 b/c she didn't know that she was pregnant (doctor's told her she shouldn't be able to b/c of her age and she was still using protection with her hubby) and she was smoking and drinking, and a lil joint here and there lol, and then found out about a month into it. With all that she had already done and her age on top of it, she decided against having the baby. If she were super healthy during all of this it would have been a long shot to have a baby safely anyways, but with all of the other, she couldn't live with herself if her lifestyle at that point would have harmed her unborn chid. It was a choice that devastated her, but it was something she felt was right.

Some couples just don't WANT children, and even those who practice the safest sex, or have vasectomies (b/c even those aren't 100%!! Freaked me out when I found out lol), they don't need to feel condemned just b/c they are together.

I don't want kids, never will, and if anything happens with me and my SO and his vasy, then we'd go the abortion route. I hate to think that I can practice the safest of sex routes, be in a committed relationship or even married, and one day have someone tell me that I cannot have this choice. It's one thing if you are just being promiscuous and not safe, but to love someone else you're with forever in that way and be forced to keep something unwanted? Scary.

Umm... naw, if I'm married and I get pregnant it looks we're going to have a baby. Even if it's the wrong time, I'm still having the baby.

I'm pro-choice no matter what the situation.

I don't want children so i'd do it.

I agree with CYL.

THANK YOU Berlin! Couldn't have sid it better myself. I am pro-choice all the way and have been with my BF for 4+ years and if I found out I was pregnant (god-forbid and I do use birth control) I would terminate it because I know I do not want children nor would I be a fit mother. My BF and I have a comitted and loving relationship but that doesn't automatically make you a suitable parent.

You are the owner of your body thus, you get to decide what you'd like to do with it. Yes I do believe a neglected child is far worse than a terminated pregnancy and I am absolutely pro-choice.

It's your decision to make and NO ONE has to right to try and make up your mind for you.

That's just my opinion : )

Do pregnancies not suck the nutrients out of your body when you're married? Does marriage mean pregnancies are 100% guaranteed not to end in health problems or death for the woman? Incontinence, bloating, massive rips "down there", chemical imbalances that can cause you to lose your mind... all that just *poof* magically go away for the marrieds?

I'm pro-choice no matter the circumstances. It's impossible to say what's going through the mind of a woman considering abortion as an option, regardless of how the situation may look to people outside of it.

I'm a mother of two and I had them both as soon as I got out of high school. I wasn't ready but I never did think about abortion's. Now I'm married to the father of my children and I know if this wasn't going to be my turn out with in those 5yrs, I still wouldn't have done it! Women that are in serious committed relationship should practice safe sex but if it's not practiced then abortion should be the last thing on there mind b/c the child will have two parents instead of one! Most families end up breaking up when it comes to children and to be honest I rather see that than a innocent child leave this earth. It's not my decision but it's best to talk about it before going on your quickest reaction!

just because a couple is married doesn't mean they are ready or even want a child. i'm with the majority of people here, pro-choice in any situation. and i agree with previous posters, this is a difficult topic and everyone is being very mature about it!

This is a tough one. I am usually a 100% pro-choice, but I am married now, and my opinion in this case is different than it would have once been. I think that part of the huge decision to get married includes the possibility of having a family. Unless you are both agreed to a child-free marriage (and I respect that) you should consider the possibility of pregnancy as part of the choice to be married. If you don't want a child yet, take precautions. We have been married for 2 years now, and we are waiting for "the right time" to start our family- but if I were to discover that I'm pregnant, we would embrace it as part of our marriage. As I said, even I am surprised at my own change of opinion, but being with the person you honestly plan to share your entire life with can do that!

I'm pro-life. To me this issue is more than just to have the child or terminate it. I've got issues with our child care system and everything. Whatever happened to adoption as an option? I'm just saying. Yes, I believe that women should not have abortions (all my nieces were a surprise and everything is working out great) however, if you have one then so be it. It's your choice. I have plenty of friends who have had them and I still love them. Besides, it's not my job to judge anyway. I leave that to the Most High. I have my own faults to worry about. Plus, I have cousins who were adopted and they are wonderful and clearly look like my family. It's better than people think when done right.

wow... this is a very thought provoking question. I am pro-choice, but personally if I were married and in a happy marriage in which I know I would get physical and emotional support to raise the child and I could afford it I would keep the child. But if I was in an unhappy marriage and didn't think my husband would be around much longer then I would never bring a child into an unhappy home. But I think unplanned pregnancies can be the greatest gift from god. I would just have to evaluate my life and emotional maturity at the time.

i'm ok with it as long as the husband knows.
don't keep him in the dark

I'm pro-life in all circumstances. Normally I would say that I wouldn't impose my convictions in this respect on anyone else, because I've never had to make this heartbreaking choice myself. I know it could never be easy. That being said, I do think that deciding to have an abortion when you are married is just plain selfish.

Well, I'm married, and we're child-free by choice. We've been together for over ten years. We're very careful to use birth control.

If there was a surprise pregnancy, as it MAY happen, as no birth control is 100% effective, truthfully, I don't know what I would do. Knowing my husband, he's would be pro-life, especially if it comes to HIS baby, even though we didn't intend to make a baby. For myself, I seriously don't know what I would do. I would be on the fence.

However, if we come to find out that the embryo has health defects, we MAY lean towards an abortion.

This is a very personalized, individualized subject.

I have a child, but having kids isn't right for everyone. I think it would be crazy to tell someone that it wasn't their choice. As far as adoption, I would have given my child up for adoption had I not wanted him, but not everyone can give birth to a baby and give it up even if it is the best decision for all involved...definitely pro-choice.

Just because they're married doesn't mean they can afford the costs of raising a child, or that there relationship would continue to be stable after it arrived, wether the child was put up for adoption or not. I am pro-choice, but I also don't believe that abortion is a means of birth control. As long as the couple is still taking every precaution they can, then I don't think they are obligated to keep the fetus.

It is SO none of my or anyone else's business what a married couple do with their own bodies - when it comes to that, I'm thoroughly pro-choice. If it's legal and available and needed, who the heck am I to judge someone?? But for myself - I'm personally pro-life and would have the baby regardless now that I'm 29.

Everyone is entitled to their choice of what they do with their lives.... I got married in a Catholic church so one of my vows is to accept any children that God may bless me with. But, those were mine.

I personally would love if I became pregnant, but...to each their own....

Being married doesn't mean that you can't have an abortion, but it means that if you don't want to get pregnant, you need to be real consistent with birth control if that is the case. For now, with my long term boyfriend, I would have an abortion, because we are not ready to be parents. If I did in fact, end up pregnant 7 years down the road, and we were married -- if we were both ready for it, then I would have the baby, if we were not, then abortion, 100%. I am careful, so if I did get pregnant, something went wrong that was beyond my control. Being married shouldn't mean you change your stance on getting and abortion or not. You need to be mentally, physically, emotionally and financially ready to accept the responsibility of a baby. If you lack even ONE of those things, you should not have a child in my opinion.

Pro choice!

Uh-ohh, another abortion debate!! I'm not getting into it this time...I will just state my opinion on the article and be done with it. lol lol.

I am pro-choice no matter what. Nothing changes if the people are married or anything else.

I am 100% opposed to abortion. There are plenty of people out there who would adopt that baby if the married couple doesn't want it.

Sorry if someone else mentioned this, but if you're married and you know you don't want kids, why not get your tubes tied or have him get a vasectomy? That would be the responsible thing to do.

Hausfrau...if you are a young woman who doesn't want kids, and you get your tubes tied, you can have the possibility of being thrown into menopause in your 20s (which is what I faced). If your partner gets a vasectomy, there is a possibility (rare but it happens) that the cut in the lines can actually grow back! As per my comment that they aren't 100%. If the two ends happen to not be cut short enough, they can cross and be fused back together, which you will never know about.

So even if you go the 'responsible' route it isn't guaranteed.

It IS your choice. Be as careful as possible; if you TRULY don't ever want kids, get your tubes tied or get his junk snipped. If all of that fails, there is always adoption.

i think that there are times in your life when you can be really careful about things and even if you're married - things happen that may not be ideal. i think that abortion is something that's very personal and you can't pass judgement on why people choose to do it. just because you're married doesn't mean that you're any less able to have an abortion than someone who's single and vice versa.

I'm firmly pro-choice regardless of marital-status. I do understand the perpective of those who are concerned about life being flippantly thrown away but I really don't think there are many women who would make this decision lightly.

Marriage (from my perspective) is not a magic cure for relationship/ financial problems (or just personal choice) which might make a couple want to wait or not have a child at all.

i was at first hesitant to comment, but when my ex-fiance and i ended things, it didn't end well of course..mainly because of the abuse but i had just stopped taking my BC because i was having a bad reaction to it (yes, i scheduled an apt to switch to another brand), but until then we had to play it safe..anyway, when we ended like i said it wasn't on good terms and he raped me. i got pregnant and yes, i got an abortion. i was ALWAYS against it, until that particular incident..since my family is hardcore roman catholics-it took almost a year for my mom to be civil with me, i'm still trying to smooth things over with everyone else..so to answer the question, i'm pro-choice.