| Runa216 said: Until a child is born, a baby is just a parasite. A bit extreme, but a woman should have a right to do whatever the fuck she wants with her body. If that means getting rid of something she doesn't want leeching off her body and making her life a living hell, then she has that right. She also has the right to keep it. Her body, her decision. And besides, I know humans tend to be very attached to other humans (it's our social nature that helped us evolve and become the dominant species on the planet), but objectively an unborn fetus is as much 'human' as a wad of cancer cells. It has no memories, it has no history, it has no personality, it's just a mass of cells leeching off the mother. It can become a person, but while it's still a fetus, it's just a mass of cells. And I know my opinion is an unpopular one, but there's nothing morally wrong with having an abortion. You may see it as murder or that you're killing an innocent, but you also need to realize that sometimes the best thing to do is to take the lesser evil, and I know a lot of women who have had abortions that would have had their lives (and subsequently the lives of their offspring) ruined had they kept the kid. Stopping a life before it begins is more humane then letting a child be born into a world where it's going to be miserable or unwanted. Lesser of two evils. Woman's choice. The world's population is too high as it is, fewer babies is a good thing in the long run (though contraception should be a priority) And that's why I hate texas. One of the only places in the world we should just....remove ourselves from. Ignorant politicis, ignorant religion, ignorant civil rights, ignorant backwards progression. Just a terrible place overall. Every time I hear about how they fight for gun rights or against women's rights or are trying to push intelligent design in school, I have a flash of aggression where I just want to bomb the state right off the map. Then I get back to my senses when I realize how absurd that is, and immediately get to seething about everything wrong with that state. |
A limit has to exist, because eventually you reach the point at which a baby is now, within most reasonable standards, a fully formed human being. Half of babies born at 24 weeks (12 weeks less than the general length for a pregnancy) survive. Hence many would argue at that point you have committed murder. I personally believe abortion should be available to all women, but 5 months is more than enough time for someone to decide if they believe they are capable of raising a child.
In regards to the population comment, at least in England, we actually need people having more children. Our population is about to go on a downwards slope (I can't remember the exact statistic, but I believe it's 1.8 children per family at the moment). We need to maintain a stable population, not reduce it. Doing that would just put us in the same situation japan is reaching, where there are too many older people compared to younger, putting huge and growing pressure on the younger generations to support the older. This makes the newer generations even less likely to want to have kids of their own, as kids are expensive, thus begin a vicious and very slippery spiral down.
