Lock this if necessary but I didn't see another thread for this that wasn't already defensive in the title....IE "Hey Pro lifers what do you have to say about this??"So where do you stand and why?
7/5/2010 9:51:36 PM
pro life = anti-murderpro choice = pro-murderthat's where i standwhy? because abortion = murder, plain and simplea fetus is a human. i don't give a shit about the legal definition of human and the ensuing skirting-the-issue discussions. a baby inside the mother is a HUMAN BEING/HOMO SAPIENS. [Edited on July 5, 2010 at 9:56 PM. Reason : ]
7/5/2010 9:53:57 PM
pro-choiceon the one hand women ought to have control over their own bodies and not get shackled into motherhood just because they got raped or lapsed on the pill and forgot to bring a condomon the other hand unwanted children are more likely to become violent criminals or dependent on welfarealso the population is increasing too quickly
7/5/2010 9:54:52 PM
^^I agree. I think "pro-choice" is a misnomer.[Edited on July 5, 2010 at 9:55 PM. Reason : asdf]
7/5/2010 9:55:26 PM
wrote some more
7/5/2010 9:56:43 PM
agreed more
7/5/2010 9:57:02 PM
you must not care about the well-being of womenand it's odd that fundies care more about the unborn than about the born
7/5/2010 9:57:08 PM
Government gets to control a woman's body. By making abortion illegal, you're introducing a slippery slope that gives government control over a woman's body. You're taking away a personal freedom. Who knows what other controls the government may legislate in the future. Will it have the power to force sterilization? Will it have the power to make motherhood mandatory? Will it next take away the right to use other birth control methods such as The Pill?"Back alley" abortions would increase if it were made illegal, leading to increased risk of young women dying or becoming sterile. Regardless of what laws are in place, there will always be young women out there who want to have an abortion. They may not want to face the wrath of their parents, the embarrassment at school, or the lifetime responsibility of motherhood. If we criminalize abortion, many woman will simply look for other ways to get rid of the child. They could starve themselves or seek unlicensed "back alley" abortions. So instead of getting an abortion in a controlled environment where there is one last chance for counseling on options, women may subject themselves to a potentially dangerous situation. These type of methods often lead to sterility or other harm, even death.It's arguably better for society to have babies aborted than have them be brought up poor and neglected, where not only will the child suffer but society when that child develops a higher attraction to crime, welfare, etc. This is probably a controversial point but it has to be said. Without legalized abortion, a lot more women will become parents whether or not they want to be and whether or not they're ready to be. Raising a child properly is a full-time labor intensive process. The children who are neglected or abused are usually the ones that grow up to be drug addicts, lifelong government aid recipients, and criminals. Do we want to subject the child to such misery? Do we want to saddle society with the added burden? Some people say, "What if Abe Lincoln's mom had an abortion?". You could also ask, "What if Adolf Hitler's or Saddam Hussein's mom had an abortion?"One brief mistake can take away a woman's childhood and trap her for life. We all make mistakes in our life, especially when we are young. The pressure to have sex at an early age is fierce in today's society. Even a girl who lives a good, responsible life can have one slip up. But that one slip-up can take away all her life plans and trap her. She may have planned to go to medical school, train for the Olympics, travel the world, or just have fun while she's still young. All this can be thrown down the drain with one brief mistake. We shouldn't penalize someone for life.Giving up a child for adoption can be just as emotionally damaging as having an abortion. Women develop an emotional bond with a child when they carry it through the full term and go through the experience of delivery. Giving up that child for adoption might be the only reasonable option for a young girl too immature or poor to raise a kid. However, the women now has to live with a feeling of abandoning their child for the rest of her life. Why do you think so many adoptive parents seek out their kids when they're grown? There's no doubt that some women suffer psychological damage from having an abortion; however, the damage done from giving a child up for adoption is much worse.Abortion is not murder because it is performed before a fetus has developed into a human person. A fetus doesn't become a real human being until it is physically delivered from a mother's womb. If you define a fetus as a human, are you going to go back and say a sperm or egg is a human? Should we ban birth control altogether then since we'd be killing a "human"?I definitely just typed all that out. Ok not really. But that's where I stand.
7/5/2010 9:57:26 PM
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7/5/2010 10:01:10 PM
^ exactlystudies have repeatedly shown that a big majority of abortions = birth controlNOT rapeNOT physical health danger to motherNOT mental health issueetc[Edited on July 5, 2010 at 10:08 PM. Reason : ]
7/5/2010 10:04:09 PM
really this argument is about where life starts, and the rights one has over something that is a part of their body and completely dependent on them. i don't think it is as easy as simply stating that a fetus is a human like their is some kind of consensus to that fact.
7/5/2010 10:11:44 PM
http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html
7/5/2010 10:13:02 PM
^^^^^^I disagree with that last paragraph; I prefer the concept expressed by the Supreme Court of "viability" (a fetus becomes a legally separate person when he or she could reasonably survive a premature birth).Keep in mind that the vast majority of abortions are performed as soon as possible after the pregnant woman discovers her pregnancy, well within the first trimester, not long after leaving the embryonic stage. The more gruesome procedures, in which an unborn baby who appears almost ready to be a premie is removed via ID&X (now banned in the US) or D&E, are by far the exception, and their rhetorical use is misleading.I also disagree with the characterization of the embryo or early fetus as a clump of tissue; I'm not sure whether this is in common use among abortion providers or advocates or rather a smear against them made by the enemies of reproductive freedom, but it's false after the blastocyst stage (early in embryonic development, before most women know they're pregnant).[Edited on July 5, 2010 at 10:14 PM. Reason : the flames are getting hotter than a 4th of July cookout
7/5/2010 10:13:37 PM
7/5/2010 10:13:40 PM
^ so some people are hypocrites...
7/5/2010 10:18:34 PM
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7/5/2010 10:26:05 PM
@0EPII1Are you against birth control?Are you against Plan B?Are you against embryonic stem cell research?Are you pro capital punishment?
7/5/2010 10:30:41 PM
7/5/2010 10:32:43 PM
7/5/2010 10:32:56 PM
im pro-abortion
7/5/2010 10:34:09 PM
So is a miscarriage considered involuntary manslaughter in your book?
7/5/2010 10:34:55 PM
No, why would it be? People dying of natural causes is never a crime... [Edited on July 5, 2010 at 10:39 PM. Reason : V--That's just too stupid to respond to.]
7/5/2010 10:35:47 PM
But a fetus has a right to life!
7/5/2010 10:36:12 PM
7/5/2010 10:39:35 PM
I was a bit sketchy on the data...they're actually rosier than I remember, and in reality the great majority of abortions occur during the embryonic stage: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.htmldata from 2006
7/5/2010 10:39:51 PM
If one is pro-choice, they approach the fetus/baby from a standpoint of aesthetics.
7/5/2010 10:40:25 PM
it seems like many people who are pro-life are also for the death penalty. how is that reconciled?
7/5/2010 10:44:05 PM
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7/5/2010 10:45:17 PM
There's nothing to reconcile.That's like me saying how can you support imprisoning criminals but oppose kidnapping.I mean, you tell me.. how the fuck do you reconcile?
7/5/2010 10:45:35 PM
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7/5/2010 10:47:50 PM
that's true... I totally remember this one fetus who was found guilty of murder in the first degree.
7/5/2010 10:48:48 PM
here's a way to reconcile it:fetuses don't commit heinous crimes worthy of executionhell we don't even lock kindergarteners up, we go after their parentsthe point is that some argue that killing should only be perfomed as punishment for a crime
7/5/2010 10:49:04 PM
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7/5/2010 10:54:07 PM
but isn't killing people murder? isn't that what you're against?
7/5/2010 10:57:00 PM
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7/5/2010 11:00:06 PM
pot = stirred
7/5/2010 11:00:59 PM
7/5/2010 11:03:10 PM
look, i am talking about cases where there definitely is proof and no doubtdahmermcveighetcnot the arson guy from 2004 (poor dude, if innocent)not ojetc[Edited on July 5, 2010 at 11:08 PM. Reason : there is no definite PROOF one way or another... and b/c of that, he shouldn't have been executed]
7/5/2010 11:05:40 PM
He was innocent, and it happened in 2004.Besides, we're talking about two different things here anyway: Fetuses and people.Fetuses aren't people.
7/5/2010 11:06:29 PM
ITT God implies that if someone dies then someone else is guilty of murder
7/5/2010 11:07:00 PM
They are.
7/5/2010 11:07:20 PM
7/5/2010 11:08:33 PM
I wish my kid was as innocent as OEP claims he is, little man just shit through his diaper onto me for the third time today!
7/5/2010 11:10:08 PM