| HappySqurriel said: I'm not really either ... I personally believe that both sides of this argument miss the point ... Abortion is one of the worst things in the world, not only are you denying life to something that is (or will become) a human you're also doing damage to your body (dramatically increasing the risk of several conditions and cancers) and performing an action which you will regret for the rest of your life. Abortion also adds no value to the world, unwanted pregnancies can be prevented by using a combination of birth control methods, and there are millions of loving couples (straight and gay) who are on long lists for the opportunity to love and raise a child. At the same time there is nothing you can do to prevent abortions from happening. There seems to be an unlimited number of self absorbed people who will go through life making awful decisions in order to maximize their short term enjoyment; these people will become pregnant, use questionable "doctors" or personal techniques to perform an abortion if it becomes illegal. We live in an age where information on anything is readily available and it is likely that if abortion became illegal (or even difficult to obtain) thousands of scared women will do very stupid things in order to abort their pregnancy.
Basically, abortion is awful but we're stuck with it ... |
That's basically my position on it.
All making abortions Illegal would do would either make you a big hypocrite or prevent all abortions even in the case of rape and murder. You can't have it both ways otherwise it's conditional human status. Which is bullshit.
A fetus is a human or it isn't.
You can't kill one person just to save another, abortions when the mothers life is in danger wouldn't be aloud. (and wouldn't in Roe V Wade.) Otherwise plenty of doctors could be sued for performing said abortions and everytime they did they would be breaking the Hypocratic Oath.
Nor could you definitly get an abortion because of rape. Though imagine how psychologically crushing it would be to have a baby growing inside of you that's half the evil man that violently attacked and forced himself on you. For 9 months. Every day a giant reminder as if you couldn't forget already.
There is a reason why when people do try to have rape babies to "get something positve" out of it i've never seen or heard of it work well.
