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Originally posted by mikerussellus
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
But we're dealing with a third party here. The life of an unborn person.
Don't they have a voice in the matter? When is someone going to speak up for them?
I'll speak up for them and say that a child should only be dragged screaming into this world if it is into a home where they will be loved, cared for and provided for in a manner befitting of the wonderful creature they can become with time.
No one should be allowed to protest outside an abortion clinic or pass anti-choice legislation unless they adopt and provide for the children forced into this world because their birth mother didn't have access to an abortion.
If you feel that it is your place to doom a child to a lifetime where their ill-prepared parents forever blame them for every economic hardship that befalls the family, fine. If you want a mother to see the eyes of her rapist everytime she looks at her son, fine. If you want to force children to grow up knowing that their mother died giving birth to them, you have fun with that.
As for me, I much prefer a world in which the only children who are born are wanted, loved and cared for.
Originally posted by RobertAntonWeishaupt
I'll speak up for them and say that a child should only be dragged screaming into this world if it is into a home where they will be loved, cared for and provided for in a manner befitting of the wonderful creature they can become with time.
No one should be allowed to protest outside an abortion clinic or pass anti-choice legislation unless they adopt and provide for the children forced into this world because their birth mother didn't have access to an abortion.
If you feel that it is your place to doom a child to a lifetime where their ill-prepared parents forever blame them for every economic hardship that befalls the family, fine. If you want a mother to see the eyes of her rapist everytime she looks at her son, fine. If you want to force children to grow up knowing that their mother died giving birth to them, you have fun with that.
As for me, I much prefer a world in which the only children who are born are wanted, loved and cared for.
Originally posted by calihan_12
so saying that abortions kill babies is like trying to tell me that everytime a man ejaculates he is killing millions of would-be babies.
Originally posted by FritosBBQTwist
Originally posted by calihan_12
so saying that abortions kill babies is like trying to tell me that everytime a man ejaculates he is killing millions of would-be babies.
I am soooo using that in my next pro-choice/pro-life argument.
If you don't mind of course...ha
Originally posted by debunky
So you rather have 2 ruined lives than one not ruined one?
Originally posted by A Fortiori
Conversely, if you take this decision away from a parent (they are a parent until the abortion is concluded) what is next? What are the limits of the state? I think if abortion is legal (and it is) then so should drugs. It is your body, your choice what you do with it. Prosecute the drug related crime as you do with alcohol.
There is a scene in Gladiator where they have Marcus Aurelius talk to Maximus about his legacy. How, he asked, would history remember him? A great leader, a great thinker...a tyrant?
Originally posted by A Fortiori
How will we be remembered by society in the future? It is anti-evolutionary as we are unnaturally de-selecting from the population. Miscarriages are Nature's way of deselection, but abortion is purposeful. What about the types of people being selected? Mostly the poor. Will we lose our sense of empathy?
Or will we see it as a step in the path to total Civil Liberty?
It is a complicated debate even with "spirituality" removed from it, at least we can all agree that it is not so cut and dry and willful fallacies be removed from the dialog.
Yes?
Originally posted by mikerussellus
Originally posted by A Fortiori
How will we be remembered by society in the future? It is anti-evolutionary as we are unnaturally de-selecting from the population. Miscarriages are Nature's way of deselection, but abortion is purposeful. What about the types of people being selected? Mostly the poor. Will we lose our sense of empathy?
Or will we see it as a step in the path to total Civil Liberty?
It is a complicated debate even with "spirituality" removed from it, at least we can all agree that it is not so cut and dry and willful fallacies be removed from the dialog.
Yes?
We will be remembered as a cruel, selfish society that cares nothing of its young, only of our hedonistic nature.
We will be known as a society that let the killings of babies go on while stuffing our faces with microwave goodies, decrying how tough our lives our when we can't twitter for an hour. Or bemoan our fate when our cable goes out when "dancing with the stars" is on.
We will be known as small minded people who can't see farther into the future than our next big mac.
Originally posted by debunky
reply to post by A Fortiori
I agree it's a complex issue, and you have to look at the actual case. Blanket statements will always fall short, the actuall situation needs to be looked at. But we can't do that here.
Another question to mikerusselus:
Is an early miscarriage a death?
Originally posted by mikerussellus
Yes. Same as a heart attack is in a fetus thats a little older. Say, 50 to 60 years.