What do you think about abortion?

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I think that nobody has the right to force a woman into the role of a living incubator against her will. No matter how I personally feel about abortion, only pregnant women can decide if they want to carry an embryo or fetus to terms or not. Society can't make that decision for the pregnant individual.

I don't think that anybody is in favor of abortion. I'm certainly not. I'm merely in favor of leaving the choice to the individual woman. Pro-choice is not pro-abortion or anti-life. The so-called pro-life position is anti-choice though.

Infanticide is an entirely different ball game. If the child is already born, or if the fetus is old enough to survive a pregnancy termination (which would be a C-section or induced premature birth in this case), the mother can give it up for adoption. But a woman who finds herself six weeks pregnant and doesn't want to go through pregnancy for whatever reason doesn't have that option.

I support abbortion where rape, underage pregnancy, and health complications are concerned.

I don't think it should be performed in the latest trimesters (which there arre already laws against), and I think birth control, contraception, abstinence, and safe sex education should all be taught to deter unwanted pregnancy.

Last edited by JNathanK on 10 Feb 2012, 6:15 pm, edited 2 times in total.

If it ain't your womb, why should you even be concerned?

I support legalizing infanticide, especially when women were denied the right to an abortion and when the baby is clearly defective. But yes, your point about the difference between infanticide and abortion is certainly valid, though it becomes less clear for infants that cannot live (in the biological sense of the word) normally.

BTW, I am also annoyed by the terms used by both major sides in the abortion debate: I suggest "pro-abortable" and "anti-abortable" for what the respective sides call "pro-choice" and "pro-life."

This is precisely why I say that women should be the final arbiter when making such a decision, and that men who want to debate the issue should only speak from the standpoint of issues that affect them.

Never an optimal solution (the best solution would be to have enough accessible contraception around so that they are never needed).

Most of the times a necessary solution.

And all times it is an inalienable right for the woman. A right of body.

Morally it is wrong and disgusting to deny this right. Legality does not matter. Centuries ago it was illegal to free slaves, it didn't mean it was immoral to free slaves. In fact, it has always been immoral to allow slavery, and law doesn't change morality.

So, a law saying that abortion is illegal, is a immoral law. Immoral laws are meant to be broken and challenged until it gets changed.

Sorry, I didn't noticed out of the sound of you continuing to debate abortion in this thread.

For once I agree with you.

Actually dolphins are more intelligent than humans so that was a bad example earlier.

I would hate for you to go into politics with that view of life.

They are? On what do you base that statement? Or rather, what is your definition of intelligence?

They don't marry, they don't pollute the air, and they don't run for political offices.



Seriously, I'd like to know where this "more intelligent than humans" meme got started, and what evidence there is to back it up.

Dolphins won't be as intelligent as humans until they figure out a way to transmit information to generations bellow that does not rely on instinct or direct parenting. AKA writing.

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I'm pro-choice, because I believe that a fully developed female with a fully developed brain that is capable of thinking and experiencing emotions should have priority over something with a brain that most likely isn't even able to process the simplest logic.