Metallicube on 21 January 2008
| mrstickball said: Metallicube - it'd be easy to ask a few hundred doctors to create a framework around defining where and when human life begins. In the US, when abortion was legalized, there were no ultrasounds, or any sort of technology to understand what was going on in the womb. Now we do. Now we see what the baby is doing. Did you know that 90% of all women that get ultrasounds and see their fetus (or child, depending on what you want to call it) decide that it is indeed real life, and decide against the abortion? America has already defined a few specific limits on what abortionists can do - Ever hear about our partial birth abortion ban? Better yet, what do you think about partial-birth abortions? |
There is no true answer to when human life truely begins, it all depends on the point of view, this is not an absoulte science that can be defined by some doctors, never has been, never will be, because there will always be someone who will want to take it a step farther back and claim that entity to be a human life. Hell the hardest of hardcore pro-lifers will even tell you that life begins at fertilization of the female egg... What do you say to them?
As for partial-birth abortions, like I said, it's a gruesome procedure, but you have to look at it this way; why would ANY woman actually go through this horrific procedure if not for a REALLY important reason where it is the only feasible solution (mother's life is threatened, some severe physical deformities that would cause the fetus/mother to suffer/ etc)? Yes partial birth abortion is an extreme procedure but believe it or not there may be EXTREME situations that call for it. Why else would any woman put herself through that unless for a dire reason? Also like I said, the VAST majority of abortions that take place are not partial birth.
The more I read these pro-life arguements, the more I realize that way too many people let their emotions and perspective of what is "morally right" cloud their judgment of logic and reason.
