Stingray24 wrote:
*sigh* Perhaps I should break down and have a mod change this thread to the "Official Abortion Debate Thread".
You're a big boy right? Sure you are - all grow-ed-up & stuff. Honestly you realize you can't limit a debate to your parameters - not on the Internet. And all threads can take on a life of their own - depending on the participants in the thread.
And by the way a lot of people - think NO POLITICAL ACTION (option 3) is an alternative to your 2-ONLY choices presented.
Spark wrote:
Then when do you define it as as a baby? At conception? But there are no guarantees it will survive anyway, and the only thing differing it from a fertilized fish or rat egg is too small to quantify.
Good point...
Also,
You can freeze eggs and sperm, for years, then place a fertilized egg into a woman. Is that all a woman is to that guy? A vessel for a "fetus?" It is nonsense this "defending a fetus" idea. Life is a potential for meaning; but a born into this world; a nurtured life; learn-ed; an experienced REALIZED; someone OUT of WOMB; a life WANTED; is of far more value than mere potential. This "vessel" called woman is far more important than a fertilized egg or a fetus that cannot survive unassisted outside the womb. It is entirely based upon a religious belief - founded in mythology. It is a belief system that is EASY to disassemble.
Defend the "woman" she is not a vessel. If she is with child and wants that child defend the "woman." Those who believe in micro-intuitive god place a transcendent miracle in the womb at the moment DAD came. Those same beliefs extend to a 13 y.o. boy masturbating, because Satin has urged him on - to "spill his seed upon the ground." That same belief-system can extend to the abortion-pill (something that can terminate a conception before it is anything other than a few cells).
The belief that life is worth defending is noble and human. But pro-life (as part of a belief-system) is choosing a "potential" over a "realized potential/a person"; a whole-life. If a girl ends up pregnant and not wanting a child - she most certainly should not be forced to have that child.
Last edited by topal63 (2007-01-23 09:02:59)