Are you Pro-life or Pro-choice?

[elprincipe]

Rath said:

segajon said:
Hell there is a law that you can't kill unborn american bald eagles here in the U.S. But nothing for humans wow.

Yes but thats for conservation reasons. Bald Eagles are rare, Humans are not.

 

"1. I've already addressed the points above. But they are important questions that people should think about. Why do some support allowing abortion in cases of rape and incest, as if that makes a child less a child? I don't see the logic in it."

Agreed, you should be for or against not in between.

 

"2. How do you decide that a fetus is human randomly at the halfway point in a pregnancy? That is a ridiculous statement. Not only have children been born before that point and survived, but what makes a fetus non-human one day and human the next? How do you even know what is halfway through a pregnancy since they aren't the same length?"

I believe that the currently agreed point at least where I live is 2 weeks before brain activity usually begins. The point at which a fetus becomes human is, in my view, the point where it begins to think. Thus abortions after this point are to me infanticide. Setting the limit at a couple of weeks before this usually occurs eliminates the risk that the fetus being aborted will have any brain activity.

"This kind of thinking is what most mystifies me about those who are pro-abortion (or at least pro-keeping-abortion-legal). It can lead easily to the conclusion that you are merely rationalizing the issue for convenience's sake, since it is completely illogical. Also, please explain to me how a fetus with its own genetic code, growing on its own, with its own body, beating heart and brain wave activity is not human but merely a "potential" person."

I could go on a tirade about how it appears that all anti-abortion people are doing is basing their views upon a religion and trying to force it upon others however that would be as pointless as your above rant.
The second part however is more reasonable and the reason is that until it starts to show signs of brain wave activity I do not believe that it should have human rights as to be considered a human being it needs to be sentient. Having its own genetic code does not make it alive, a dead body has its own genetic code.

 

 

It may appear all people with an anti-abortion viewpoint hold that viewpoint for religious reasons, but it's simply not true.  I should know; my viewpoint has nothing to do with religious views.

As for a dead body having its own genetic code, yes of course that's true, but remember that when we are talking about a human fetus we are talking about a living, growing person with his or her own genetic code in addition to the other things I mentioned.  I only mentioned genetic code because some people seem to have the curious belief that the child is part of the mother since he or she is inside the mother.