Except they aren't alive until they are born and have no sense of pain until the third trimester, which was the previous limitation on abortions in the US and where most countries with legal abortions draw the line anyway.
There's a difference between aborting a 6 month old foetus and a 2 week old clump of cells - the latter is no different to having a wank in terms of what you 'kill'. I must be a complete genocidal maniac! Have me arrested!
Except they aren't alive until they are born and have no sense of pain until the third trimester, which was the previous limitation on abortions in the US and where most countries with legal abortions draw the line anyway.
There's a difference between aborting a 6 month old foetus and a 2 week old clump of cells - the latter is no different to having a wank in terms of what you 'kill'. I must be a complete genocidal maniac! Have me arrested!
If killing a clump of cells is infanticide then so is IVF and wanking. Might as well stop eating while you're at it too - if you eat meat you kill animals directly through your demand - if you don't you still kill loads of cells in every item you consume. Might as well start floating too since your body can crush and kill cells
It's a womens choice if she is 6 weeks pregnant and does not want to have a child.
The funnier part is when they are forced to have the child and need gov't assistance those same people tell those women to kick rocks... talk about ironic
It's a womens choice if she is 6 weeks pregnant and does not want to have a child.
The funnier part is when they are forced to have the child and need gov't assistance those same people tell those women to kick rocks... talk about ironic
All I had done is:
1. pointed out the logic doesn't slide if you apply it to other situations
2. provided a source and research from one of the biggest sexual health institutes in the world that show banning abortion is counterintuitive
3. pointed out that if it really is about the kids as most people anti-abortion argue, they should be campaigning for several if not hundreds of things absent in the US, and yet they aren't
They are three basic, principled arguments. If you have a problem with it, try and share your thoughts as to why you disagree.
And you realise most politicians that actually argue against this use Aristotle to support their argument and consider him more credible than scientifically backed research, right? He GUESSED (over 2300 years ago) an embryo is alive at 40 days pregnancy for males and a foetus is alive at 90 days for females...
All I had done is:
1. pointed out the logic doesn't slide if you apply it to other situations
2. provided a source and research from one of the biggest sexual health institutes in the world that show banning abortion is counterintuitive
3. pointed out that if it really is about the kids as most people anti-abortion argue, they should be campaigning for several if not hundreds of things absent in the US, and yet they aren't
your wording is the problem like dizzy pointed out, you sound very near deranged. I am pro choice but I don't go in here acting like it's just a lump of irrelevant cells
She is terminating her pregnancy for her own reasons whatever they may be... it's certainly never a "convenience" for any women to go through the process of having an abortion
your wording is the problem like dizzy pointed out, you sound very near deranged. I am pro choice but I don't go in here acting like it's just a lump of irrelevant cells
deranged because I am angry about the fact people are okay with sending people (women) to death but not okay with sending people (reaaaaaaallly stretching the definition of a person) to "death?
most of whom that share this view do not consider any consequences or implications. The problem doesn't end at abortion or not.
Prove to me an early stage pregnancy, for a woman who wants or requires an abortion (to live, perhaps) would not see it that way? I am sure a foetus is significant to many but this is not my point. I would very much appreciate it if all of you could learn to read or at the very least improve your comprehension to understand that my point is that if a woman wants an abortion, she should be able to have one. If a woman doesn't want an abortion, that is okay too. If a person who opposes abortions is in a situation where an abortion is valid; choosing not to have one is still okay - the latter does not require a banning of abortions for everyone. If people don't want others having abortions, the subsequent implications must also be addressed (child safety, health services, aid in poverty, housing, food, population problems, fostering/adoption/homelessness etc.) - the fact they have not been addressed (pretty much ever, in the US at least) means that banning abortions, if that's what you believe in, is simply running before you can walk.
People should have agency to choose. Whether it is moral or not is not even the question - if it is the question you have or center your arguments around to begin with then you are entirely misguided.
If killing a clump of cells is infanticide then so is IVF and wanking. Might as well stop eating while you're at it too - if you eat meat you kill animals directly through your demand - if you don't you still kill loads of cells in every item you consume. Might as well start floating too since your body can crush and kill cells
Don't people see how ridiculous the argument is? A foetus doesn't have any indications of sentience until the third trimester at around 6 months. Abortions before 6 months, if they 'kill' anything, kill an un-alive, un-sentient being.
Sentience is literally irrelevant to whether something is alive or not, at least biologically, and not everyone will care about any philosophical shit you might want to bring up.
If these American conservatives really cared about the kids they'd achieve more addressing the fatherlessness problem, the inequality against fathers in family courts, reform gun laws and advocate for universal healthcare and further support a centralised, codified and compulsory form of sex education which currently does not exist in the states and would further support more affirmative action over the fostering of the approx 400,000 kids in the foster/adoptive system in the US at any given time. But no, I bet we'll be hard pressed to find anyone who supports all of these things - and if you don't, it's likely not really about the 'babies' but about control or you're simply incredibly misinformed on abortions in general.
Nobody has the right to inhibit another persons choice. If abortions are legal, you can choose to not have one. It's not that hard. It's no skin off your nose and you aren't oppressing other people because 'muh 2000yo book says so'.
Pretty much agree here, but thats still missing the pro-life point. they argue your choice shouldnt be able to terminate the life of another human being, even if that human being is in the earliest developmental stages.
I haven't even begun to discuss the immorality of forcing women to live with children they cannot have - if a delivery is going to be lethal, you're sending a woman to death. If a woman was raped, she doesn't want the baby. Products of incest usually have severe deformities. Several medical procedures require abortions and can result in death if the abortion is not performed (e.g. stillbirth foetus that cannot exit the womb). Children forced to be born live horrific and severely disadvantaged lives most of the time.
It's a much bigger picture than 'killing' a clump of cells, you absolute fucking wingnuts.
And abortions never have complications, right? spoiler: they do have complications.
and im pretty sure most pro-lifers are fine with exceptions in the case of rape or incest. The laws dont necessarily reflect on that tho.
Not sure you wanna go the route of children would be better off dead if they live in horrific and severely disadvantages circumstances. If that wasnt what you were trying to say, my bad, but it really does lowkey sound like that.
And you realise most politicians that actually argue against this use Aristotle to support their argument and consider him more credible than scientifically backed research, right? He GUESSED (over 2300 years ago) an embryo is alive at 40 days pregnancy for males and a foetus is alive at 90 days for females...
deranged because I am angry about the fact people are okay with sending people (women) to death but not okay with sending people (reaaaaaaallly stretching the definition of a person) to "death?
Talk to women in real life, I've said earlier in this thread but for most women abortion is a big deal. It's not as easy as eating as you literally alluded to.
I am sure a foetus is significant to many but this is not my point. I would very much appreciate it if all of you could learn to read or at the very least improve your comprehension to understand that my point is that if a woman wants an abortion, she should be able to have one. If a woman doesn't want an abortion, that is okay too. If a person who opposes abortions is in a situation where an abortion is valid; choosing not to have one is still okay - the latter does not require a banning of abortions for everyone.
People should have agency to choose. Whether it is moral or not is not even the question - if it is the question you have or center your arguments around to begin with then you are entirely misguided.
She is terminating her pregnancy for her own reasons whatever they may be... it's certainly never a "convenience" for any women to go through the process of having an abortion
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