VGC Poll: Abortion

[elprincipe]

Rath said:

elprincipe said:

akuma587 said:
It's perfectly fine with me that some people think abortion is the worst thing on earth. Don't have an abortion, that's fine with me. But I want to know who gave them the right to tell everyone else what to do. There are reasonable grounds for disagreeing on whether or not abortion should be allowed, so why should the government step in and control people's decisions. I take the same attitude with outlawing certain drugs. The government isn't our parent (listen to me, I sound like a conservative!). Why should they be going around telling us what to do?

It's perfectly fine with me that some people think murder is the worst thing on earth. Don't murder someone, that's fine with me. But I want to know who gave them the right to tell everyone else what to do. There are reasonable grounds for disagreeing on whether or not murder should be allowed, so why should the government step in and control people's decisions. I take the same attitude with outlawing certain drugs. The government isn't our parent (listen to me, I sound like a conservative!). Why should they be going around telling us what to do?

Thats where your reply fails, the rest of it works. It is not reasonable to allow the murder of adults as that would cause a breakdown of society, even if you view a fetus as a person it doesn't change the fact that 'murdering' it does not cause a breakdown of law and order.

 

See my above post.  In any case, it doesn't cause a breakdown in law and order because, despite what pro-abortion folks will say, most pro-lifers are law-abiding citizens who abhor violence.