razeontherock
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Ok mdancin, people like this REALLY strengthen the argument abortion should be illegalized, period! Sheesh
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Ok mdancin, people like this REALLY strengthen the argument abortion should be illegalized, period! Sheesh
As you say in a later post: fetusses have no voice. That´s why it´s inevitably up to us to make decisions on their behalf. That goes both ways.Well killing is killing isnt it? Who are you or anyone else...to tell someone even as little as a fetus...that THEY THINK.....THINK, they would be better off dead than to face....things after they are born that MIGHT.....MIGHT happen.
Another fallacy.
There is absolutely no evidence that back alley coat/hanger/hoover abortions would skyrocket. And in fact, "skyrocket" is relative. There were a remarkably tiny number of deaths from botched abortions (maybe 100 but I think like 37) the year before abortion was legalized.
And this assumption is based on the ridiculous belief that all women who seek abortions would #1, still get pregnant if abortion was illegal, and #2, get an abortion if it was illegal.
Essentially, the assumption is that the women who seek abortion are so stupid and so criminal that the fact that abortion is ILLEGAL will make no difference to them, that they are THAT committed to getting one.
Not true.
Please provide the stats that show how the number of botched abortion deaths would skyrocket if abortions were illegal? You made the claim, you back it up.
What sort of pain is unmanageable? I've worked in a nursing home, I worked as a caseworker for SPD..I've never seen any pain that is unmanageable.
Late stage cancer is pretty painful for a while before death...and they generally opt for morphine which renders them unconscious and often hastens their death by slowing their breathing.
Doctors have been helping people to die in this way since time began. There's no need to legalize murder to accomodate it.
You're right. Might as well legalize all murder since it won't all be enforceable. Might as well let people steal without fear of being busted since we are not able to stop all thieves. Might as well tear down the speed limits since they will never catch all the speeders...on and on and on and on.... Whatever. Of course laws cut down on illegal activity. That's the whole premise behind having a justice system, is because we believe we can cut donw on illegal activities by having laws and law enforcers in place to stop those caught in illegal activities.threats of unenforceable laws don't hamper illegal activity.
Apology accepted. Picking a battle that can be won; i.e., not illegalization of abortion, =/= ignoring the issue. Picking a battle that can be won =/= failing to stand up for children both in and out of the womb.
Btw, I produced a TV show that aired "Silent Scream," circa 1986.
It is possible to have public funding removed from abortion. It is possible to have minor children who seek the procedure to need informed parents, if not parental consent. Even if the minor child can pay for it herself. Please stop to consider how much headway would be made with these measures! These battles could be won, short-term.
Attempting to have abortion illegalized merely mobilizes our opposition and inflames them.
Silent Scream was an excellent film that showed graphic images that I think need to be shown more today. I am all for putting a picture or a face to abortion. Most people are offended...
As you say in a later post: fetusses have no voice. That´s why it´s inevitably up to us to make decisions on their behalf. That goes both ways.
Glad we understand each other better now, good to meet you!
When I produced the TV show airing Silent Scream, I was too busy to actually watch the film and listen to the voice over, but I did see the raw footage. I wouldn't say "the movie is actually good."
The raw footage was commissioned by then Pres Ronnie Ray-gun, who honestly wanted to find facts on if abortion is killing a baby or not. He got his clear results, and then promptly hid his face from the truth, that yes indeed, abortion kills living babies, who fight for their life, suffer, and die in an unimaginably horrible way. (Cause your children to pass through the fire, sacrificed to Molech, anyone?)
VP candidate Dan Quayle was involved in the early stages of causing this truth to re-surface. The movie Silent Scream does not do a good job of disseminating this information in a fair and balanced way, and therefore can be seen as hurting our cause. The actual research, is indisputable.
What is the current legal status of abortion past the first tri-mester?
Yes, those are all wonderful reasons to have an abortion. Thanks for reminding us...
They have a heart and heartbeat. It's a human heart inside a human being. Abortion is still murder.Although you couldn't ask a lot of foetuses if they wanted to be aborted, because before the second trimester, they have the nervous system of a turnip.
It's not the heart that makes someone human, it's the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Without them, a foetus isn't a person, it's just something with the potential to become a person.They have a heart and heartbeat. It's a human heart inside a human being. Abortion is still murder.
If someone was so severaly brain damaged that they had the cognitive function of an 8-week foetus, I think it is the right of the family to decide to let them die. We're not talking about people with Down Syndrome here.If you were to kill someone who was mentally incapacitated without their consent, knowledge, permission, whatever- would that be murder? They would have you locked away so quickly your [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] would hurt from the jail door slamming shut on it!
By the way, your sig line? It is you who is without understanding.
In Christ, GB
So doing a frontal lobotomy on someone would preclude them from being a human and therefore making their murder acceptable? Think about your reasoning. All a murderer would have to do is to cut off oxygen to the brain long enough to make a person brain dead, that would be like aggrevated assault. Then they could kill them after they were brain dead and say it wasn't murder because there was no brain activity. Thus, they would not be guilty of murder, just assault. They do a few years and are out and about to do it again.It's not the heart that makes someone human, it's the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Without them, a foetus isn't a person, it's just something with the potential to become a person.
What you fail to recognize is that an eight week old fetus will become a nine week old, then a ten week old, and eventually an adult. You are comparing someone who is permanently locked into a condition to someone who will increase their body weight and size and brain by millions of times by the time they travel though the birth canal.If someone was so severaly brain damaged that they had the cognitive function of an 8-week foetus, I think it is the right of the family to decide to let them die. We're not talking about people with Down Syndrome here.
Although you couldn't ask a lot of foetuses if they wanted to be aborted, because before the second trimester, they have the nervous system of a turnip.
Come to America sometime and destroy a bald eagle's egg. You will get fined and jailed. Though you can come to this same country, get a gal pregnant and take her down to a local abortion clinic, and you will get gov't assistance to kill hers and your offspring. Where did we go so horribly astray?
In Christ, GB
Frontal lobotomy no. But if you take enough of the brain that all higher functions expire (so at least the whole cerebral cortex, possibly a lot more), then yes, the remains would be no longer a person and killing it could not be murder (however the extended brain removal would have been murder).So doing a frontal lobotomy on someone would preclude them from being a human and therefore making their murder acceptable?
Why whould that just be like aggravated assault? If the victim is and remains braindead, then it was at least manslaughter, if not murder.Think about your reasoning. All a murderer would have to do is to cut off oxygen to the brain long enough to make a person brain dead, that would be like aggrevated assault.
Might become, yes. But isn't.What you fail to recognize is that an eight week old fetus will become a nine week old, then a ten week old, and eventually an adult. You are comparing someone who is permanently locked into a condition to someone who will increase their body weight and size and brain by millions of times by the time they travel though the birth canal.
So abortion = pulling up a turnip, to you. You fail to recognize this is the ethics sub-forum? Or you merely fail to have any?