Abortion (3 Viewers)

[AngelSpeaks]

Your response is an example of avoidance.



Unless your religion says that the other isn't a person yet.



I was never looking for a middle ground because to you it is always and only about the fetus or baby. But there IS a third party, the pregnant woman, and it is HER rights that become somewhat of a problem in this discussion.

Right to terminate a life? When does that right end? Before or after a fetus can survive outside the womb? Medical science is making a fetus more viable earlier in the pregnancy. If a woman, who is 22 weeks or more pregnant, loses that child as a result of an attack or negligence, is that an abortion or a homicide? Is she or her surviving family entitled to justice or compensation? I've known women who miscarried in this time period, or later, and they had named the child and had a burial service, they didn't toss the unborn into the garbage. My husband's five month old nephew who passed before we got married was mourned the same as my brother's daughter who died in her mother's womb at 8.5 months.

 

[Jon]

Is it morally right to murder the unborn? I am talking the child that could have been had you procreated. Not only have you deprived it of its fetus stage, you have deprived it of any life at all. It is an argument I use against Vegans. Don't kill animals for food because it truncates their life. But eating no meat means there is no meat industry and so you have truncated all their lives, especially the unborn.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

My position remains simple.

1. Religions exist that do not declare that a fetus is a person before birth.
2. The USA and many other nations allow freedom of religion. Even to extremes in some cases.
3. Therefore even though I am personally against abortion, I don't have the right to interfere with someone acting according to their religious beliefs regarding that intimately personal situation of unwanted pregnancy. I consider this a very narrow zone of no interference.

4. This lack of rights and lack of condemnation does not extend to those who would act with violence to others, for example: The Oct. 7th Hamas attacks; the Saudi doctor who drove his truck into a crowd in Germany.

 

[ColinEssex]

I supported her in her time of need knowing how painful this decision was to her. You might ask, why wasn't she using birth control? The answer is the Catholic church forbade birth control at that time and so she obeyed the tenants of her faith.

More fool her then. Just shows how stupid people are regarding religion.
Col