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It should never be a public decision. Pregnancy is possibly the most personal experience a woman can have - there is a foetus developing inside her own body for goodness sake, there's no way the government should force her to give birth. I'd go as far as saying that banning abortion is cruelty because it removes a choice that all people should be allowed to make. I can't stand it when people compare abortion to murder or child abuse, it shows such a lack of empathy and compassion. A person has to have been born before they can be murdered and child abuse causes great pain and suffering. It's not fair to compare these things. Of course an embryo has the potential to become a human life, but at that stage it isn't one and it can't survive on its own without the mother's support. There is a big divide in opinions on whether abortion is right or wrong, there is no such debate with murder. People don't sit around questioning whether child abuse is really wrong. Where there are split opinions, there should be a choice. Condemn it if you have to, but don't impose your beliefs on someone else.
Economic Left/Right: - 9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: - 7.85
Choice, whether social or economic, especially in the case of choosing to exploit workers, murder someone, or steal something of value for personal gain does not give you the right to exercise this "freedom."
While i do not agree that abortions should be common practice, i don not think we should make laws respecting either viewpoint, in the vain hope that the right choice should be made, in my opinion.
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If we all got angry together something might be done. ~ Frodo Baggins
I just thought I'd throw in a question for the pro-lifers. I was always pro-choice. However, there was a time I was more sympathetic (still pro-choice) the the pro-life position. My idea was that "pleasure in the future" matters so we should care about a fetus.
However, why stop there? Some don't. They say contraception is wrong. However, why stop there? Why not have as many children as possible. Each one is a possible life that would not exist. Life is precious, after all.
Does anyone draw a line here? And how do you do so without creating some sort of contradictory argument? I'm not looking to convert to being pro-life. I'm just curious.
Men tend to whine about personal decisions being public affairs due to the fact that historically the public has been constituted of, and defined by, men themselves. Hence it is in the interest of the dominant gender to control the debate and frame the debate via avenues of power in which they have a vested interest of control.
This is why Richard Nixon is upset about a woman making a decision about her body (which is hers alone), but totally fine with a man doing what he pleases in his home (which is shared and maintains a public interest).
- August
If we have no business with the construction of the future or with organizing it for all time, there can still be no doubt about the task confronting us at present: the ruthless criticism of the existing order, ruthless in that it will shrink neither from its own discoveries, nor from conflict with the powers that be.
- Karl Marx
I always wonder whenever I hear people say this; do people really use abortion as a regular method of contraception? Ignoring the whole it costing the health system loads argument for one second; isn't having an abortion pretty invasive and generally not a nice experience? I wouldn't have thought many people would decide to not use contraception and rely on abortions just because after having had one they would realise how massively horrible they are and decide to use some other method from then on.
Oh yeah, I knew a girl who used to get abortions monthly. She once told me that she did it just so that she could loosen herself up. Girl eventually became a young republican and found Jesus.
Daamn girl, them is some nice dreadlocks. You wanna help me send some speedboats to Somalia? I just bought clean water for a family of five, two goats, and home birthing kits for them Africans. Pretty soon we'll all be interbreeding. What could be more communistic than a single-tribe species living off the fruits of our intelligence? I say we start a consortium to develop sustainable agro-tech and give it to the people who need it and can't pay for it, and charge the people who can - then we can use capitalism to bring about a more communistic world!
hey, its not about money or even morality, its about having a functionnal health system.
arbortion are not horrible, but while the doctor take care of that, he cant take care of something else.
has i said, there is PLENTY of contraception methods avaliable.
a monthly shot for exemple would be a lot less problematic for the woman than getting repeated arbortion.
then again those case are fairly rare, but those people need education and efficient, practical mean of contraception.
WHY kléber, WHY!!!!!!!
