SciFiBoy said:
HappySqurriel said:
SciFiBoy said:
im pro-choice, I think that abortion should allways be legal |
Would you still feel that way even if abortions start getting used at high levels for eugenic purposes? How would you feel if they discover a 'Gay Gene' that can be detected in early pregnancy and, while hetero-sexual couples think there is "nothing wrong with being gay", couples decide they just don’t want to raise gay children?
Beyond the classical pro-life arguments against abortion, there is a lot of morally reprehensible acts occurring around the world because of wide-spread abuse of abortion. While I think it is fair to say that abortions should be legal for people who have good reason to have an abortion, I think saying that they should always be legal is questionable.
An interesting element of this argument has always been how paradoxical the demographic breakdown has been compared to how it is argued. Typically men are far more pro-choice then women, the young are far more pro-choice than older-people, and gay people are far more pro-choice than straight people and it is always argued as a “Women’s Rights” issue. I don’t know if it is still the case, but a handful of years ago polling indicated that if women of voting age were in charge of regulating abortion there would be significant restrictions placed on them.
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Its kinda hard to stop something like that, sure, but I really doubt that people would do that in any significant numbers. If possible id say they shouldnt be able to do it for such reasons, but people would just lie, so its kinda hard to stop, like I said though, its a highly unlikely scenario and its highly unlikely that many people would abuse it like that, given the physical and emotional trauma that abortions can result in, abortions arent a "good" thing, but theyre something people have the right to do imo.
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Being that people already do it in high numbers for Down's Syndrome children in the western-world, and for girls in the rest of the world, I don't think it is nearly as unlikely as you want to tell yourself ...
The rational assumption would be that between the wide-spread availability of birth-control and massive public awareness that unwanted pregnancies would be a thing of the past; but people are generally far more selfish and self-centered than we can ever logically assume, and given the choice to terminate a “Small collection of cells” to provide the opportunity to have the child they want I bet the abortion will become a highly popular option.
