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    without ever having to deal with this situation in reality I don't think I can give an honest opinion. I can see the arguements for both sides, but there's no feeling attached to them.

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    Choice Choice Choice.
    maybe a saint is just a dead prick with a good publicist
    maybe tommorow's statues are insecure without their foes
    go ask the frog what the scorpion knows

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    For the record, I cast my vote in as "Pro-Life" but absolutely NOT of the Kamangir variety. Please read my posts for elaboration.
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    I used to be adamantly pro-life, but switched to pro-choice somewhere down the road. I still think there should be restrictions like abortions only allowed during the first trimester, but not the second and third trimester. I'm not really a fan of abortion though, I probably wouldn't do it if I was a woman, but it's not my business what women decide to do with their bodies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raver View Post
    I used to be adamantly pro-life, but switched to pro-choice somewhere down the road. I still think there should be restrictions like abortions only allowed during the first trimester, but not the second and third trimester. I'm not really a fan of abortion though, I probably wouldn't do it if I was a woman, but it's not my business what women decide to do with their bodies.
    This is pretty much where I stand too. I was zealously pro-life in my teens until I understood the reasons women might need to make that hard choice. I am pretty sure women who do choose an abortion don't take it lightly and it is probably psychologically and physically distressing to find yourself in a situation where there are no other options.

    I have said many times that I don't see many pro-lifers offering up any good options, as they hold up their signs. Perhaps if someone feels so strongly about another person's choices (a person they don't even know or really care about) they can offer to take care of one child through college instead of just trying to shame a person who does not want to be in those circumstances. The problem is they don't care about the individual as much as they care about their ideation of a potential life. The majority of pro-lifers live in a religious bubble.

    I am sure there are people who offer to help support a woman if she chose to have the child but those are usually family members who end up formally, or informally, adopting the child.

    I think adoption is a valid alternative for some people but I could not give a part of me away to strangers. If you have a good supportive family willing to help that would be the best choice. If they are dysfunctional you probably don't want to bring a child into that. Depending on the level of dysfunction.

    I think abortion in the first month would be something preferable for many women. The not knowing what became of that child would be worse for me. They could end up in a abusive situation or worse. That would haunt me more than an abortion would. I imagine they could end up in some kind of indentured servitude with some foster family. Too many horror stories.

    Why is it so hard to see that women who have abortions can be be pro-life with choice.

    Although, maybe it should be legal to abort some living adults who are clueless and have more compassion for an embryo than another living, breathing, human but that would fall under a mercy killing . :/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aylen View Post
    I have said many times that I don't see many pro-lifers offering up any good options, as they hold up their signs. Perhaps if someone feels so strongly about another person's choices (a person they don't even know or really care about) they can offer to take care of one child through college instead of just trying to shame a person who does not want to be in those circumstances. The problem is they don't care about the individual as much as they care about their ideation of a potential life. The majority of pro-lifers live in a religious bubble.
    thank you. if they care so much why don't they try to apply their energies to helping women who find themselves in this position or do something constructive rather than just being hate spewing bitches.

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    I'm pro-life but I am against legislation that mandates that viewpoint, as I am against any "moral" legislation. You cannot legislate morality, you cannot point a gun at everyone's head and say "be a good person or I shoot you" and expect any good to come of it. Hell, doing that just makes matters worse. Wire coat hanger abortions done in a dark alley filled with garbage that result in infection are the inevitable result of a legal ban on the practice. Just like how methanol poison "bathtub gin" was the inevitable result of prohibition.

    Anyone seeking to "purify" the public through legislation is a lunatic. You'll only make things worse, so stop fucking trying to go this route. Ban weed and they grow it in their basements. Ban guns and there would be a sudden rise in the stocks of plumbing suppliers (Pipes and springs+a few power tools=guns). Ban booze and people start brewing batches of it in their bathtubs. You get the point. The only way to stop shit like that is through culture. You must make it a sin in the common conscience to do such things. Passing a law when the culture doesn't fully condemn the behavior will only push it underground and make everything far worse than it was before the laws were passed. That's why people who crusade for such things piss me off. They're either dumb as hell or they're completely missing the point.

    The only moral legislation that works are the laws banning stealing, killing, and raping. Which are, when you think about it, simply enforcing property rights. Anything beyond that will not end well, I guarantee it.

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    pro-choice because it's impossible for me to anticipate all the circumstances that make abortion a necessity and i don't really care to make people's moral decisions for them.

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    prochoice and free pregnancy tests for everyone

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    The poll is closed, but...

    A person is a person, no matter how small...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eliza Thomason View Post
    The poll is closed, but...

    A person is a person, no matter how small...
    According to the bible, a fetus is not considered equivalent to a post-birth individual: to kill a fetus was not even considered murder. In addition, killing babies less than a month old was not considered murder either.

    Augustine and Aquinas also believed that abortion in the early stages of gestation was not murder, although they were opposed to it.

    In my view, abortions are not desirable, and if I was able to have abortions, I would be heavily inclined against it, at least if the baby had reached quickening (I would partly have concerns about the effect on my own health of such a procedure). However, I do not think it can be defensible to say that an adult cannot have autonomy over their own body. I also think abortion must be legal because the effect of illegal abortions would otherwise be intolerable.

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    forcing girls and women to gestate is unethical.

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    encouraging young girls in trouble to kill their babies is unethical.
    "A man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope."
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    "Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the Church, is often labeled today as fundamentalism... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eliza Thomason View Post
    encouraging young girls in trouble to kill their babies is unethical.
    What is your view on the ethicality of killing other animals and vegetables, and eternal torture?

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    Quote Originally Posted by iAnnAu View Post
    I am pro-choice and when I faced the choice, I went with adoption. It had everything to do with my circumstances, and nothing to do with politics. But as for politics, I think everyone should have the choice.
    I have an amazing situation where I got to choose the couple who adopted my baby, and we all keep in touch. I visit them; just saw them in February in fact, and sometime this summer they will come down and visit me and my parents, who are excited to see her (we all get pictures emailed, so my parents really feel a connection).
    As happy as I am about the way my situation turned out, there are an infinite number of alternate circumstances. I value the fact that I actually had a choice; I know I at least wouldn't have felt the same during the pregnancy if I had been forced to have the baby - but instead, I actually enjoyed the experience of bearing a child!
    This is an old thread - iAnnAu wrote this in 2008. So her child is at least 9 now, or even much older. I have never been faced with such a choice but I can imagine how panic and fear, mixed with strident wrong advice from those who do not have to suffer the consequences of such a choice - would make a woman choose to have her baby killed. iAnn must have had supportive and good advice, a safe environment, or some sort of help to help her make this generous choice that she does not regret (to have GIVEN life, vs. ended life). I am intrigued by her comment, "...I actually enjoyed the experience of bearing a child!"

    Quote Originally Posted by sapphire View Post
    Also, I agree what End wrote above about legislating morality.
    Not me, not at all. There are a lot of moral things that should be law. I bet as a Mom you could think of some pretty quick!

    Quote Originally Posted by Subteigh View Post
    What is your view on the ethicality of killing other animals and vegetables, and eternal torture?
    That it seems unethical to compare that to this devastating choice some woman face?
    "A man with a definite belief always appears bizarre, because he does not change with the world; he has climbed into a fixed star, and the earth whizzes below him like a zoetrope."
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    "Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the Church, is often labeled today as fundamentalism... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eliza Thomason View Post
    That it seems unethical to compare that to this devastating choice some woman face?
    Hardly. I consider it a reasonable escalation considering what you brand unethical and ethical.

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    Pro-choice

    Pregnancy is a big deal, and having a child is an even bigger deal. If someone feels they must have an abortion, carry to term and give the baby up for adoption, or keep the baby depending on what they believe is best in their opinion in their siuation, that is their responsibility and their right.

    Also, I agree w what End wrote above about legislating morality.
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    Like I said, I agree w @End's post -- he (she?) covered pretty much what I also believe.

    Have you read the book Boundaries, by Henry Cloud and something Townsend, @Eliza Thomason? It's written from a Christian perspective but imo is mostly good, practical stuff. I thought of it here bc imo the kind of morals you and some others want to write into law oversteps the boundaries of what a government should do imo. (The book makes no mention of abortion, etc; it just popped to mind, so I referenced it.)

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    @sapphire I'm a dude and proud of it. I sympathize with Eliza pretty hard but this is probably where quadra differences and intertype relations come into play. As an ILI I only care about the final result. My cries out, and boy do I NOT want certain things to happen. I'm rather cold in my calculations, and also rather blunt in my assessment of situations. End of the day, I'll coldly sacrifice someone I don't know to save someone I do. I'm not a total asshole though, ILI's don't like the "overt" leadership roles because we don't like to have these calls traced back to us directly (because that only amplifies the pain felt by any failure, by us especially). We leave that to the LIE's, SEE's, and SLE's who are more comfortable in the spotlight. We'll accept the spotlight if push comes to shove, but we'll be damn sure to let everyone know that we will make decisions that'll piss someone off and, frankly, we don't give a fuck. We warned you, we do not care about your feels. Though, ironically, your tears will wound us on a very deep level. We saw them coming, we made the call, but that doesn't make it hurt any less than it really does (though you will not ever see or hear us admit this publicly).

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    Quote Originally Posted by sapphire View Post
    Like I said, I agree w @End's post -- he (she?) covered pretty much what I also believe.

    Have you read the book Boundaries, by Henry Cloud and something Townsend, @Eliza Thomason? It's written from a Christian perspective but imo is mostly good, practical stuff. I thought of it here bc imo the kind of morals you and some others want to write into law oversteps the boundaries of what a government should do imo. (The book makes no mention of abortion, etc; it just popped to mind, so I referenced it.)
    I love that book. Its excellent. In fact I just skimmed that book again a couple weeks ago just before I lent it to a friend who really needs it. I love the part where the woman is complaining to Townsend, after much counseling and successful boundary work in her life, about this other person in her life who hasn't told him about yet, who keeps overstepping her boundaries, borrowing money and not paying it back and all these other clear boundary over-stepping things, and he says, "What! Why haven't you told me about her? Who is this?" and she says, "Its me." Yes, he makes a good case for the different areas of boundary-overstepping. I don't remeber the law-making one.

    Actually as to stuff being written into law, that is not something I have not expressed thoughts on here. But as to the point I was making about moral laws to you - strangers molesting children is one thing we all find immoral, that's one I thought you would think of easily. And perverts who molest or rape their own children should be jailed...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eliza Thomason View Post
    I love that book. Its excellent. In fact I just skimmed that book again a couple weeks ago just before I lent it to a friend who really needs it. I love the part where the woman is complaining to Townsend, after much counseling and successful boundary work in her life, about this other person in her life who hasn't told him about yet, who keeps overstepping her boundaries, borrowing money and not paying it back and all these other clear boundary over-stepping things, and he says, "What! Why haven't you told me about her? Who is this?" and she says, "Its me." Yes, he makes a good case for the different areas of boundary-overstepping. I don't remeber the law-making one.
    The book doesn't reference the law as far as I remember, but I thought of boundaries in general -- such as the US Constitution calls for bt church and state, and such as (as End points out) make the most sense.

    Actually as to stuff being written into law, that is not something I have not expressed thoughts on here. But as to the point I was making about moral laws to you - strangers molesting children is one thing we all find immoral, that's one I thought you would think of easily. And perverts who molest or rape their own children should be jailed...
    Of course I think child molestation should be illegal...basically I was trying to be lazy (efficient?) by just directing you to End's post above where he discusses this. Child molestation, rape, kidnapping, torture, theft, murder, etc should be illegal bc in committing them a perpetrator violates the boundaries (or property rights, as @End calls them) of another person. It's like how one person's right to swing a fist ends where another's face begins.

    Abortion is different, imo. At least in the beginning of pregnancy, the bundle of cells and later developing fetus is not yet a person w feelings or consciousness. On the other hand, the mother is a person w rights, and it is imo her right and responsibility to do what she believes is best for herself, her potential baby, etc. Her personhood cannot be questioned, while the potential baby's can (at least in the beginning of pregnancy), and she should not be restricted by law. (Many anti-abortion people say a fetus can feel pain beginning around 20 weeks. First, this is controversial in itself. Second, imo abortion should not be performed in the second half of pregnancy unless medically recommended/necessary due to risk to the mother, fetus, or both... if you abort a fetus at e.g. 34 weeks, imo it is far enough along to probably feel pain and have some sort of burgeoning consciousness.)
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    Wow, this ol' chestnut.

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    Don't have sex, then there is not need for an abortion. If you want to be risky about it, use contraceptives. Problem solved.
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    I was pregnant at 16 and didn't have an abortion. I don't think that makes me a more caring or moral person at all, and I don't see what it has to do with the abortion debate or how it applies to other people and their unique situations.

    Quote Originally Posted by QuickTwist View Post
    Don't have sex, then there is not need for an abortion. If you want to be risky about it, use contraceptives. Problem solved.
    good luck expecting this to ever take hold. people aren't the sims.

    let alone all the occurrences of rape, contraceptives not working, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lungs View Post
    good luck expecting this to ever take hold. people aren't the sims.

    let alone all the occurrences of rape, contraceptives not working, etc.
    Just how many births are accounted for via rape do you think?
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuickTwist View Post
    Just how many births are accounted for via rape do you think?
    no idea, so i googled-

    Estimates of the numbers of pregnancies from rape vary widely.[8][9] Recent estimate suggest that rape conception happens between 25,000 and 32,000 times each year in the U.S. In a 1996 three-year longitudinal study of 4,000 American women, physician Melisa Holmes estimated from data from her study that forced sexual intercourse causes over 32,000 pregnancies in the United States each year.[10] Physician Felicia H. Stewart and economist James Trussell estimated that the 333,000 assaults and rapes reported in the US in 1998 caused about 25,000 pregnancies, and up to 22,000 of those pregnancies could have been prevented by prompt medical treatment, such as emergency contraception.[11]

    A 1996 study of 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy estimated that in the United States, the pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45).[10][12] A 1987 study also found a 5% pregnancy rate from rape among 18- to 24-year-old college students in the US.[13] A 2005 study placed the rape-related pregnancy rate at around 3–5%.[14]

    A study of Ethiopian adolescents who reported being raped found that 17% subsequently became pregnant,[15] and rape crisis centres in Mexico reported the figure the rate of pregnancy from rape at 15–18%.[16] Estimates of rape-related pregnancy rates may be inaccurate since the crime is under-reported, resulting in some pregnancies from rape not being recorded as such,[14] or alternately, social pressure may mean some rapes are not reported if no pregnancy results.

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    I haven't read much of this thread but on the subject of abortion, I never did and wouldn't, couldn't - I myself would rather die or would have been willing to be a single parent.
    I know in some situations with the information available today on the health of the fetus etc this could be such a difficult decision and I would never want to be placed in that position.
    Pregnancy for me occurred at a young age and I am so very proud of this child who is now an adult, his life was, is and always shall be valued extremely highly by me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sanshayz View Post
    I know in some situations with the information available today on the health of the fetus etc this could be such a difficult decision and I would never want to be placed in that position.
    This is one of the reasons why it is not so black and white. I believe a responsible person would have further testing if some abnormality is found in routine tests. If testing showed a child would have severe, painful, physical and mental disabilities, (that would lead to short life of suffering anyway), perhaps breathing would be horribly painful for them, isn't it more compassionate not to bring the child into the world? I know some people believe they are good people for devoting their life to a child like that but if they knew for certain that the child would have these problems would it be selfish for them to have the child, so they can feel like they are a good person doing the right thing? The line is very blurry sometimes when it comes to thinking you are doing the right thing and being selfish. :/

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    Great info @lungs.

    Even if it were only 1000 or 100 or even just 10 women who were impregnated during rapes, so what? Should those women be forced to carry and deliver those babies, just because relatively few women are impregnated as a result of rape? That's monstrous. If a woman chooses to bear her rapist's child, that's fine, but if she is forced to against her will it's like she's being raped in a whole other way as well.
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    Solution: women take the pill until they are ready to have a baby.
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuickTwist View Post
    Solution: women take the pill until they are ready to have a baby.
    Huh, is this your solution to preventing pregnancy due to the a potential risk of being raped during one's reproductive years? That could be 40 years (my grandmother had my mom in her 50s) of a woman's life ingesting artificial hormones and increasing risks for all kinds of health problems. It might lead to some interesting mutations in the human population over a a generation or so.

    Maybe we could chemically castrate all boys/men until they PROVE they will never rape or coerce a female into getting pregnant? It would not only protect young girls but also insure that no woman will ever trick them into getting them pregnant. If a man (not a rapist) wants a guarantee that they will never get a woman pregnant (including their wife if they don't want children) then there are steps they can take to insure it as well. Don't have sex. Don't even put yourself in a situation that could lead to sex. Become a eunuch. GOT-like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_coercion

    Sounds crazy right?

    Not all women can safely take the pill and who wants to live life in anticipation of running across a rapist... That is no way to live. Why would, say, a virgin who does not believe in birth control want to take the pill? Why would nuns want to take the pill? They are not even allowed to. Virgins and nuns get raped too. :/ Although most nuns would have the baby but I bet some wouldn't.

    When do they start, age 10-12? Just in case they get raped? I don't think you know much about the pill so I am not going to give you too hard of time. Even if girls age 10-12+ started taking the pill to prevent pregnancy from an unforeseen rape, they would need a break from it every few years.

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    I just have one question for the pro-choicers: Why is the mother's life worth more than the babies?
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuickTwist View Post
    I just have one question for the pro-choicers: Why is the mother's life worth more than the babies?
    The life of the mother and the fetus is worth more than that of the mother or the fetus. But the fetus cannot live independently of the mother (for at least most of the permissible fetus age-limit for abortions). If making abortion illegal only increases the number of deaths of women from illegal abortions, or from women committing suicide while pregnant, I would think that would be reason enough for abortion to be legal.

    Why is the life of a human fetus necessarily worth more than that of a cow?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subteigh View Post
    The life of the mother and the fetus is worth more than that of the mother or the fetus. But the fetus cannot live independently of the mother (for at least most of the permissible fetus age-limit for abortions). If making abortion illegal only increases the number of deaths of women from illegal abortions, or from women committing suicide while pregnant, I would think that would be reason enough for abortion to be legal.
    There are ways to adapt (as a society) that the child will be taken care of even in the few instances where the mother dies of childbirth or doesn't want to take care of the baby.

    Quote Originally Posted by Subteigh View Post
    Why is the life of a human fetus necessarily worth more than that of a cow?
    The only reasonable answer I can come up with is that the human fetus grows up to know how to reason better than the cow thereby being more of a sentient being. You have to ask yourself if you would rather have a more sentient being on the planet or a less sentient one on the planet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuickTwist View Post
    There are ways to adapt (as a society) that the child will be taken care of even in the few instances where the mother dies of childbirth or doesn't want to take care of the baby.
    I think if we start legislating that the state has ultimate autonomy of a person's body, we will move drastically away from a state that acts in the interest of individuals and of wider society. It cannot be rational to not permit the individual to be governor of their own body. You would risk the life of a person against their will for the possibility of allowing a life that would agree with such a state of affairs.

    Quote Originally Posted by QuickTwist View Post
    The only reasonable answer I can come up with is that the human fetus grows up to know how to reason better than the cow thereby being more of a sentient being. You have to ask yourself if you would rather have a more sentient being on the planet or a less sentient one on the planet.
    I don't think an argument based on sentience really works. We all end up dead and non-sentient, and there are many people living who are less sentient than a cow. I also think that it is unsound to live contrary to the ability of the planet to sustainably support us, as humans currently do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Subteih;1131942g
    I think if we start legislating that the state has ultimate autonomy of a person's body, we will move drastically away from a state that acts in the interest of individuals and of wider society. It cannot be rational to not permit the individual to be governor of their own body. You would risk the life of a person against their will for the possibility of allowing a life that would agree with such a state of affairs.
    Who said anything about legislation? I think the government has proven to fail us all the time so I don't think just making laws is the right way to go about it. And just because a baby comes from a body, doesn't mean it only is one body. there is a body in a pregnant woman and this cannot be overlooked. This is why I suggest women don't have sex until they are ready to get pregnant.

    Quote Originally Posted by Subteih;1131942g
    I don't think an argument based on sentience really works. We all end up dead and non-sentient, and there are many people living who are less sentient than a cow. I also think that it is unsound to live contrary to the ability of the planet to sustainably support us, as humans currently do.
    Sentient creature have the best chance to prolong the earth, contrary to popular believe that all humans do is fuck up the earth. If you don't care about the future then it really doesn't even matter what kind of policies we have for or against abortion in the first place.
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuickTwist View Post
    I just have one question for the pro-choicers: Why is the mother's life worth more than the babies?
    It is not technically not a "baby" until it can live outside the womb and saying that is used to evoke emotional responses in women who are already struggling with difficult decisions.

    Would you sacrifice any female, in your own family, for my, or anyone else's, fetus?

    Sperm is technically human life too so masturbating is killing a potential baby. Women don't kill their potential babies every time they touch themselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aylen View Post
    It is not technically not a "baby" until it can live outside the womb and saying that is used to evoke emotional responses in women who are already struggling with difficult decisions.
    Semantics. I'd argue what we know of how babies develop in the womb makes it a matter of debate when exactly it is a baby.

    Quote Originally Posted by Aylen View Post
    Would you sacrifice any female, in your own family, for my, or anyone else's, fetus?
    Any female I know to a fetus I don't know is not a correlation coefficient. I might just value a baby that I knew of more than I female I knew, however.

    Quote Originally Posted by Aylen View Post
    Sperm is technically human life too so masturbating is killing a potential baby. Women don't kill their potential babies every time they touch themselves.
    You can't argue it both ways. Either the baby is alive while in the womb or it isn't. And without and egg that is impregnated and given the almost endless supply of sperm a male can produce, and given a male can impregnate a woman even though he has just masterbated, it makes your point moot.
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