Lord N said:
It damn well is the right of the mother to abort a fetus if she doesn't want the pregnancy. A fetus is not a sentient being and hence is not the same as killing a child after it has been born. That fetus is still a part of her body. It isn't as simple a matter of "she couldn't keep her legs closed so she should be forced to have the baby." That's what's idiotic. No form of birth control is 100% effective. Condoms break, birth control pill don't always work, etc. Even if protection wasn't used, to err is human...... People make mistakes, and there needs to be a safe and legal option when this kind of thing happens. Without it, abortion wouldn't go away, it would just go underground and we'd have back-alley abortions like what was going on before Roe vs. Wade. Even in cases when a women is irresponsible and has unprotected sex, who cares? We're talking about a woman removing undeveloped tissue from her body. Are there wars being started because of it? Is the economy suffering? Are people dying? It makes much more sense to have legal abortion than it does to have the law force all of these women to carry their unwanted pregnancies to term and give them up for adoption. There really isn't a big demand for other peoples' children. Sure, there are people who adopt because they can't have children, but that's the overwhelming minority. When people want kids, they usually just have their own.
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Agreed. It could also be said to those that are "pro-life" that using a condom is killing as well. Really any form of birth control. Anything that stops the reproductive system is stopping a life from being born.







