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originally posted by: Guyfriday
So can you explain how legal suicide, abortion, and the Death Penalty are not all the same thing?
originally posted by: jjkenobi
Democrats want abortions at every corner for "free" up to and sometimes even after birth. It's ridiculous.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
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If you feel differently, then please explain how they are all different.
originally posted by: TonyS
originally posted by: jjkenobi
Democrats want abortions at every corner for "free" up to and sometimes even after birth. It's ridiculous.
True and Democrats steal elections, so...........more abortions and next. euthanasia (volontary) and then euthanasia (compulsory).
The Party of Death.
Abstract
Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus' health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.
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originally posted by: Sookiechacha
Like I said, poor women are being systematically disenfranchised from affordable abortion clinics, like Planned Parenthood.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
Nor did you acknowledge that suburban families are often "2nd mortgaged to the max, and can't afford to be a single income family to welcome a 4th child, and still make their mini van payment, their soccer club dues, ballet and piano lessons payments, so, they're opting for abortions."
originally posted by: Arizonaguy
a reply to: Lysergic
Remember when some states were proposing forcing women who planned to have an abortion to watch an educational video about abortions being performed?
Remember how the baby killer faction had a fit and said it amounted to a cruel form of punishment? How could it be punishment if it was just a medical procedure?
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Opponents will respond that abortion is, by its very nature, unsafe - for the fetus. They point out that abortion kills a unique, living human individual. That claim is difficult to deny, at least if by "human" we mean "member of the species Homo sapiens."
It is also true that we cannot simply invoke a woman's "right to choose" in order to avoid the ethical issue of the moral status of the fetus. If the fetus really did have the moral status of any other human being, it would be difficult to argue that a pregnant woman's right to choose includes the right to bring about the death of the fetus, except perhaps when the woman's life is at stake.
The fallacy in the anti-abortion argument lies in the shift from the scientifically accurate claim that the fetus is a living individual of the species Homo sapiens to the ethical claim that the fetus therefore has the same right to life as any other human being. Membership of the species Homo sapiens is not enough to confer a right to life on a being. Nor can something like self-awareness or rationality warrant greater protection for the fetus than for, say, a cow, because the fetus has mental capacities that are inferior to those of cows. Yet "pro-life" groups that picket abortion clinics are rarely seen picketing slaughterhouses.
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originally posted by: Arizonaguy
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
Woah pal, you either responded to the wrong post or have some serious reading comprehension issues
I do not, nor have I ever supported abortion
Every post in this thread and everywhere else supports this.