VGC Poll: Abortion

[Final-Fan]

mrstickball said:
Final, I wasn't trying to argue that slavery is related to abortion.

I was trying to ask the question of 'could you be against a specific act (such as abortion), but say that it's still a person's choice, regardless?' and then compare it to other various concepts, such as slavery, drug usage, and other shades of questions, down to smoking. It was more of an introspective question rather than a direct one.

I understand the other side of the issue - that a fetus is not a person, therefore has no rights, and it's entire life is solely dependent on the mother's decision of carrying it to term, outside of natural, and unnatural complications. Is that a wrong view of your side of the argument?

Yeah, my second paragraph was an overreaction because I know you weren't trying to make a direct link.  But still, really.  You might as well have asked about other "social issues" he might dislike but allow in others like murder and rape. 

Yeah, that statement is accurate, as far as it goes.  But when you say things like what I pointed out before, it seems to say that you think someone defending legal abortion thinks no more of a fetus than one might feel about, oh, a can opener.  In actuality, a fetus is very important and any choice or action that affects it must be done with great care, including the decision whether or not to allow it to become a child.  That is a great burden and hardship as well as privilege and honor, on the child as well as the mother; and sometimes the most humane option is for that child to never exist.  Not kill -- not unmake, since a person has not yet been made -- but prevent from existing -- by destroying (yes, killing) the corporeal form that the potential person would have come to occupy.  It is regrettable that such a choice should be the least bad option, but it should not be a shameful thing when the choice is made carefully. 

Someone who honestly gets an abortion with as little emotion as taking birth control or wearing a condom has clearly not thought through the reality of the situation.