Abortions

Then a pro-embryonic stem cell person would say "aborted fetuses are DEAD so they're useless" wait a sec... did he just say they're DEAD? If a fetus' "deadness" makes it unusable for embryonic stem cell research, wouldn't that mean it was alive to begin with?

Personally, I'm pro choice. Abortions have been shown to keep the crime rate down (Source: Freakanomics), and they let people who aren't ready to be parents not carry the burden of a child. I believe if you don't want to have an abortion, DON'T HAVE ONE. Don't infringe on other peoples lives just because you don't like it. Thats like protesting a gay marriage just because you aren't gay. Since the abortion doesn't affect you in any way shape or form, I don't think third parties should have any say on it at all. I also think the only reason they are banned where they are (I'm stateside) is because we live more in a theocracy than anything. If you think its wrong, please explain why you think its wrong, and likewise if you agree with me.

Edited by A Redneck, 01 May 2008 - 03:24 AM.

Don't be too sentimental guys. Abortion is just a way to control population, most of the girls who use abortion as an escape goat just aren't ready to be mothers. And if the parents aren't ready in a certain family, the child is the one who usually suffers.

I'm completely pro-choice. What quite a few abortion protesters fail to realize is the fact that a fetus is not capable of thought. It is barely capable of the slightest recognition of the five human senses, the most being able to feel pressure. A cow fetus looks the same as a human fetus in the stage that they are aborted at, and they are no different from each other either.

If the abortion is preformed at the proper stage of development, then the fetus will be incapable of any sort of thought or feeling, including pain. Lots of things don't sound nice, but you shouldn't let your sentimental side cloud your logical one.

It's not the only route, but adoption isn't as good as everyone who uses that argument makes it out to be. Think about the effect it could have on the child. I'm not saying there has to be any drastic effect, but there easily could be, and I feel it would be quite common.I don't see it as "taking" a life because there is no real life yet. It's preventing a potential life, and I have no problem with that. There's nothing to miss if there was nothing to begin with.

My view on abortion is this. If people have the right to choose to refrain from having sex they have the right to get rid of the child. In both cases they are preventing a potential life.

Does that child have a right to life? Do the parents have the right to kill in cold blood the most innocent person (or creature) on earth?

I'm also pro-choice.Who cares if you kill a fertilized egg cell? They even sell fertilized chicken eggs at Safeway for humans to eat.It doesn't matter if you kill something of a very insignificant value, because they practically aren't alive anyways, and don't know what you're doing to them. Like say for example, I killed a bug.Would anyone care?Yeah, I don't see how pro-lifers get their ideas.