My argument for abortion: Woman ultimately have the right to do what they want with their body.
Agreed.
Fetuses are not really alive until they are born. So, technically, being pregnant is more of a medical condition than anything else. Woman should have the right to correct this condition if they so chose.
Fetuses are most definitely alive. The notion that life doesn't begin at conception is ridiculous, and not supported by anyone who stops to think at what it means to say there's no life there.
What about women who were raped? Should they be forced to carry their rapist's baby?
No, they shouldn't.
What if she can't financially afford the baby? The child will only suffer in poverty. It would be a mercy to not subject the child to that kind of life.
Women can give children up for adoption, so this is hardly a pro choice argument.
The world doesn't have to worry about the survival of our race. In fact, there are already too many people! Children should only be born to parents that actually want them. God knows I have see too many emotional and psychological beat downs in my life by people who should never have been parents. If you are only going to resent your child for ruining your life, spare both of you the trouble by aborting when it's only a fetus.
This can also be solved by adoption, and better birth control.
The only question that should be answered when it comes to abortion is this one:
Does the right to life of the unborn supersede the rights of the mother to not carry a pregnancy to full term?
And my stance is that it shifts. When the level of development of the embryo/fetus hasn't reached any form of sentience, there is no individual/person/experience (it's kind of similar as with a brain dead person). Without that, the rights of the mother are more important. Once there is sentience, there is an individual/person/experience, and the right to life becomes valid, and supersedes the rights of the mother to not carry the pregnancy to full term.
The rest of the arguments are either emotional arguments, straw men or irrelevant.
I have a fun mental exercise for everyone
- 07/01/2011 06:47:47 PM
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Germany sucks
- 07/01/2011 07:52:13 PM
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lol, I don't think I've ever clicked on something as fast as I did that.
- 07/01/2011 11:27:50 PM
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Ok then.
- 07/01/2011 09:13:57 PM
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are you a woman? if not, fuck off. you have no uterus, you have no say. *NM*
- 07/01/2011 10:00:32 PM
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horse shit
- 07/01/2011 10:28:40 PM
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I cannot agree
- 08/01/2011 01:29:45 AM
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"Choose partners carefully to avoid this situation" cuts both ways; "choice" is the operative word.
- 14/03/2011 02:38:41 AM
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*Sigh* This is not what I wanted
- 07/01/2011 11:53:37 PM
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a debate based on morality is not rational. humans aren't actually rational creatures, you know.
- 08/01/2011 02:05:05 AM
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I wasn't aware women had a monopoly on dispassionate objective arguments.
- 08/01/2011 12:59:33 AM
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I wasn't aware they had the capacity for it
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- 08/01/2011 02:45:54 AM
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- 08/01/2011 02:45:54 AM
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Oh, I'm quite aware of and familiar with their capacity; hence my disappointment.
- 08/01/2011 03:01:41 AM
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It is true that the person with the uterus gets to make that decision.
- 08/01/2011 01:46:15 AM
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Your arguments pro choice are poor.
- 07/01/2011 10:59:43 PM
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Gotta disagree with your rape argument
- 07/01/2011 11:15:34 PM
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I agree with this. I'm interested in knowing what Helen's response is
- 07/01/2011 11:55:23 PM
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Re: Gotta disagree with your rape argument
- 08/01/2011 01:32:06 AM
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Discussion merits discourtesy apparently
- 08/01/2011 03:24:09 AM
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At the end I did say that it was not you but the idea. I guess I didn't phrase that well enough.
- 08/01/2011 06:42:40 AM
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If you belive a child is a child from conception then does the means of conception change that?
- 08/01/2011 04:52:34 PM
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Not an argument or even completely applicable to what you just said. Just another viewpoint.
- 09/01/2011 01:06:19 AM
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The right to wear perfume or generous portions of cologne in a the workplace or public areas
- 08/01/2011 01:24:04 AM
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I hate this too. *NM*