What Are Your Political Views?

[MarkkyStorm]

Pemalite said:

MarkkyStorm said:
 and abortion (even though I'm catholic, the reason for me to going against abortion is not religious, but the fact that you have to respect the right of the baby to be free, to live, even if you don't intend to take care of him, there are other ways).

The thing with being against Abortion is that you are essentially giving someone else the right over your own body.

It would be no different if I had a life-threatening disease and you were the only person with the necessary compatible bone marrow to save my life, should you also relinquish your rights to say no to me? Or is a Fetus more important than a fully grown human being and should thus get more rights?

I am of the belief that a Fetus does have the right to live. But only if it is able to do so with it's own power and not at the expense of anyone else, otherwise it hasn't earned the right to live. - I honestly don't understand how anyone else could have the opposite perspective, it has always baffled me.

It's because you see the baby just as a "fetus". You don't perceive that little creature as a human being. But not everyone agree with your thinking.

Abortion really is a tough question. I believe that the right thing to do usually comes from whats it's better for the majority of the people involved.

A simplistic view:
There's a woman. There's a baby.
If the woman decide to abort, she will be "happy", but the baby don't.
If the woman have the baby and keep it, but didn't want it, baby is "happy", but the woman won't be.
If the woman have the baby and don't keep it, since she didn't want it, both end up "happy".

It's not just your body anymore when there's another body inside it. That's the body of the baby. You don't have the right to kill it. If you don't want a baby, you can use preservatives, take your birth-control pills and others. Although, in cases when the woman could die during birth, abortion is a considerable option (if you have to choose just one to be alive, I agree with choosing the woman's life). Also, in case of rape, I think that we should take that pain in consideration. If you give people the freedom to abort whenever they want, you are giving people the right to think "well, I don't want a baby with Down syndrome, so I will kill it" or "I don't want a baby girl, so I will abort".