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I personally never saw the logic in calling someone "pro life" that guns down an un-armed doctor.

99.9% of us would never even think of that. Every bunch has a few crazies in it. I have the same feeling about fellow "Christians" who attack gays or condemn others to Hell.
 
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but don't "pro-life" people want to make abortion illegal? doesn't that remove choice?
if you don't want people to be able to choose to have an abortion, doesn't that make you against the choice to have an abortion? that makes you anti-choice when it comes to the topic of abortion
isn't that forcing women to do something they don't want? namely having a baby they don't want? that would make you anti-women.

If I'm anti-woman and anti-choice that would make you pro-murder wouldn't it? Because you believe it's ok to murder a human being because they are an inconveinence? Doesn't that sound a bit harsh? Yeah. Welcome to my shoes.

No I am not anti- choice because like all other pro-choicers I've ever met you like to believe that you are "pro-choice" but whenever they encounter a young pregnant girl they like to scare her into believing that this is a black and white issue and her only "logical" is to damage her womb by ripping her offspring out of it, killing the child. I've never heard a pro- choicer even mention the words "adoption" or "financial aid". No, according to many, there is only death, and hardship. That doesn't sound like a very fine choice to me.

And as far as anti-woman is concerend, I don't think it's very pro-woman to send a scared young girl into a room without telling her both the physical and emotional effects the procedure may have on her. Sending her into a room where she may come out with internal bleeding, causing death, or making her barren, so she can never have ANY children. These intstances are much more common than many pro- choicers admit. Studies have been done to show that many women who walk out of abortions are left feeling depressed, guilty, and or isolated. My heart goes out to these poor dears, they gone through a scary experence. Not giving a young woman these facts, and sending her into a room to face physical and emotional stresses right after the physical and emotional stresses of pregnancy sounds very anti- woman to me.

i think it does have to do with ethics, no pro-choicer i've ever met or read the words of is "pro-abortion" they want the choice of abortion to be there, to be chosen if the woman desires it. giving women a safe environment to have an abortion if they so chose is pro-women, since they would otherwise have go to a place that could kill them or do things that would kill them, like fall down stairs.

your choice of name is wrong, so called "pro-lifers" aren't "pro-baby", there are no babies to be pro for. plus even if you could count fetus as babies, i've never seen so called "pro-lifers" support babies once they are born, most pro-lifers are against national health care, to support babies and children, they are against bettering childrens lives through helping them with schools.
i've read plenty of pro-lifers that could care less about kids once they are born, i heard plenty of "let them fend for themselves" and "they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and other such nonsense.
pro-baby? no, at most people should call themselves pro-blaming-women-for-getting-pregnant, but anti-women is good too.

Biologsts are in agreement that as far as physical science is concerened, life begins at conception. So the issue of abortion is not, does the fetus count as a life, the question is does a fetus have human rights, because it cannot live on its own outside the mother's body. I believe, yes, it does, an infant outside of the mother's womb relies on others to have it fed, sheltered, changed, etc., so would you say it's alright for a mother to kill her infant because he/she has become a nuisance? No, and if anyone told me they believe that should be acceptable, I would recoil in disgust.

As far as not caring about children after birth, I most certainly do. As far as national health care is concerend, that has nothing to do with supporting children. is our healthcare system flawed? Yes. Is national healthcare an even worse system? absolutely. Ask any Canadian or Cuban how they feel about their healthcare system.

Bettering schools? Explain what you mean by bettering schools. I believe that education is a vital key to any society, and should be one of our top priorities.

And for your last statement, I've NEVER met a person that thinks a baby should fend for themselves. A grown person, however, can fend for themselves if that is what your getting at. A man reaches a certain age when he needs to take his mother's breast out of his mouth and grow up.
 
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Where are you meeting these abusive psycho's you're calling "pro choice?"

That "welcome to my shoes" crack is pretty funny, when you follow it up with that bit of insanity.

Nearly every person I've spoken to, who thinks that abortion should be legal, has moral concerns about it and doesn't feel like they'd ever have one for themselves. Even the friend I have who has has never been religious or conservative, and can easily say "if I got pregnant now, I'd probably have an abortion," was nothing but kind and supportive when a friend of hers was pregnant and struggling with the decision.

Maybe you're hanging out with psychopaths and like to pretend that's everybody, but I have never once met a person who would try to make that decision for anybody else, or who would so psychologically abuse a frightened girl that way.

As for biologists agreeing that life begins at conception...no. For one thing, the medical definition of pregnancy starts at implantation, not conception. The more important question--"when do cells become a person?"--isn't a scientific question at all. It's a sociological, psychological, moral, and religious question. So, biologists are as welcome to their opinions as electricians and janitors, but it is no more their specialty than anybody else's.
 
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from post #23 said:
As far as not caring about children after birth, I most certainly do. As far as national health care is concerend, that has nothing to do with supporting children. is our healthcare system flawed? Yes. Is national healthcare an even worse system? absolutely. Ask any Canadian or Cuban how they feel about their healthcare system.
Well I don't know about Cubans but it's easy to find Canadians who like their health care system. :wave: There are quite a few here on CF actually. :) Been here?
snopes.com: Canadian Health Care
tulc(just thought you'd like to know) :wave:
 
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Well I don't know about Cubans but it's easy to find Canadians who like their health care system. :wave: There are quite a few here on CF actually. :) Been here?
snopes.com: Canadian Health Care
tulc(just thought you'd like to know) :wave:

I've met a few Canadians, and none of them have anything nice to say about the system. I'm sorry I shouldn't have made a generalization.
 
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I've met a few Canadians, and none of them have anything nice to say about the system. I'm sorry I shouldn't have made a generalization.

...and you can find Americans who like ours? :confused:
tulc(just wondering) :wave:
 
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I find it is usually best to name others as they name themselves.

This.

I like to avoid labels all together because they are often so misleading. We like things that are clear cut, black and white, but in reality, things in life are rarely like that; they are usually various shades of gray. Labels have a tendency to be either black or white and very few people, even those who are self-labeled, actually fit their label in a black or white fashion.

People who are "pro-life" sometimes are also pro-death penalty, or support pulling people off life support. Sometimes they are pro-abortion ONLY if in cases of rape or if the mother's life is in danger. Sometimes people who are "Pro-life" are also "pro-choice" because while they are vehemently against abortion and would never condone it, they support a woman's right to have one in a clean facility done by a professional rather than a back alley one done with an unsterile coat hanger, which is where women would have them if abortion were made illegal.
 
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Since another thread has gone a bit off course in this matter, I'll post one here.

Is it ethical to call pro-choicers by names meant to incite emotion and anger (pro-abortion, pro-death, baby-killers, etc.)

Is it ethical to call yourself pro-life for being anti-abortion when you do not support life in other fields (being pro-death penalty, pro-war, etc.)

Other words concerning abortion.

I don't know if ethics come in when discussing labels. Usually a group that supports a position will choose a favorable and politically correct label for themselves. Opponents can and have used non-pc and exagerated labels for both sides. Neither completely describes the position accurately. I think most people are aware of this. So while they may make good protest signs, I don't think it does much in the way of informing people and changing minds.

As an aside, I noticed you used "pro-war" as a contradiction to "pro-life". I'd wager to bet that there are very, very few people who are pro-war in the sense you imply. What I mean is that there are very, very few people who actually like and want war. Usually pro-war is used to define people who agree with the decision that war is sometimes necessary to defend and protect freedoms, people, and ideas from those who would wish to do them harm. You may have been looking for the term "warmonger."
 
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I personally never saw the logic in calling someone "pro life" that guns down an un-armed doctor.

Most of the names we chose are loaded.

If you arent "pro life" that assumes that you are against pro-life and therefore....anti-life?

Pro-choice and anti-abortion sounds just fine to me.

Pro-Life is a loaded gun ready to be fired. :)
 
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Hey I have no trouble being called anti-choice. There are a lot of things I am anti-choice about. I am anti-choice when it comes to my neighbors choice to break and steal my belongings. I am anti-choice when it comes to government officials taking bribes and kickbacks, I am anti-choice when it comes to the guy who lives down the street choosing to rape our 11 year old neighbor (old neighborhood not new) I really don't mind being called anti-choice because there are simply somethings that we shouldn't have a choice about. Obviously many will disagree with me about where the line should be drawn but I have never encountered anyone who wasn't confined to a mental health facility who actually believe we should have a choice about everything.
 
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I'm guessing you remember me from somewhere else tulc? lol. Cause I don't recognize your name.
Nope, I just like greeting people who are new on CF! ;)

I mean I'm sure eventually people will recognize me as I'm pretty much EVERYWHERE on the internet.
Well...no I've never seen you anywhere else that I'm aware of. :sorry:

Doesn't help those rumors I've been attacked with recently that I'm an "disinformation agent of the Illumminati".
Really? You were around in 18th century Bavaria? :confused: You're really old then! :eek:

I wish I was in the Illumminati. Then my life would be more interesting and I'd be doing something I love.
Hey! I'm not in the Illuminati, and I'm doing what I love! :wave:
tuc(drinking coffee, posting on CF!) :D
 
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Hey I have no trouble being called anti-choice. There are a lot of things I am anti-choice about. I am anti-choice when it comes to my neighbors choice to break and steal my belongings. I am anti-choice when it comes to government officials taking bribes and kickbacks, I am anti-choice when it comes to the guy who lives down the street choosing to rape our 11 year old neighbor (old neighborhood not new) I really don't mind being called anti-choice because there are simply somethings that we shouldn't have a choice about. Obviously many will disagree with me about where the line should be drawn but I have never encountered anyone who wasn't confined to a mental health facility who actually believe we should have a choice about everything.

I totally agree with your point on this.:thumbsup:
 
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If I'm anti-woman and anti-choice that would make you pro-murder wouldn't it? Because you believe it's ok to murder a human being because they are an inconveinence? Doesn't that sound a bit harsh? Yeah. Welcome to my shoes.
how does that relate? that would be a flat out lie, the things i said were the logical conclusions of your stance. your straw-man of my views is nothing more than that, a straw-man, i highly doubt my stance is analogical to yours

No I am not anti- choice because like all other pro-choicers I've ever met you like to believe that you are "pro-choice" but whenever they encounter a young pregnant girl they like to scare her into believing that this is a black and white issue and her only "logical" is to damage her womb by ripping her offspring out of it, killing the child.
well done, you go to show you know nothing about the pro-choice position and all you can do is vilify what you do not understand. plus thats a mighty fine mirror you have, nice and shiny
sorry but i do not believe this and no pro-choice supporter does either.
by the way there's no damage to the womb if you bloody do it right! most abortions are before the first trimester anyway

I've never heard a pro- choicer even mention the words "adoption" or "financial aid". No, according to many, there is only death, and hardship. That doesn't sound like a very fine choice to me.
then you haven't bothered to look at what pro-choice is, pro-choice is also adoption if the woman chooses it


And as far as anti-woman is concerend, I don't think it's very pro-woman to send a scared young girl into a room without telling her both the physical and emotional effects the procedure may have on her.
Sending her into a room where she may come out with internal bleeding, causing death, or making her barren, so she can never have ANY children. These intstances are much more common than many pro- choicers admit.
who's not admitting this? this happens with any surgery if done wrong, i think you need to stop distorting the truth to make it look worse than it really is.
if you go to a back alley abortion clinic then yes this will happen, more often than not.
but thats in a place that doesn't follow safe practice, but it can happen rarely anywhere.
you make it sound like it happens every time. plus your nonsense about emotional affects is the result of culture not abortion, why would anyone tell you about something that has nothing to do with a surgery?
Studies have been done to show that many women who walk out of abortions are left feeling depressed, guilty, and or isolated.
this has nothing to do with abortion, this has to do with culture and the way we treat those who have abortions.
My heart goes out to these poor dears, they gone through a scary experence. Not giving a young woman these facts, and sending her into a room to face physical and emotional stresses right after the physical and emotional stresses of pregnancy sounds very anti- woman to me.
those aren't facts, they are at most appeals to emotion. i've seen equal numbers of studies that show that women don't have the issues you claim they do.




Biologsts are in agreement that as far as physical science is concerened, life begins at conception.
you would be wrong! anyone who knows anything about embryology would say thats a load of bollocks and it's irrelevant anyway
So the issue of abortion is not, does the fetus count as a life, the question is does a fetus have human rights, because it cannot live on its own outside the mother's body.
thats the pro-choice argument, its not remotely about being alive its about whether or not the that thing that is alive should have rights over the woman's body or not.

I believe, yes, it does, an infant outside of the mother's womb relies on others to have it fed, sheltered, changed, etc.,
the difference is, i could take care of someones infant while they can't, i can't do so with a fetus, at least until they invent an artificial way
so would you say it's alright for a mother to kill her infant because he/she has become a nuisance? No, and if anyone told me they believe that should be acceptable, I would recoil in disgust.
no i wouldn't because the infant is born and is protected by law, a fetus accord to law is not protected.

As far as not caring about children after birth, I most certainly do. As far as national health care is concerend, that has nothing to do with supporting children.
yes it does, i remember distinctly that republicans rejected a health care bill that would help children, but it was "socialist"
is our healthcare system flawed? Yes. Is national healthcare an even worse system? absolutely. Ask any Canadian or Cuban how they feel about their healthcare system.
thats not data, i really could care less what one or two people think, i have read plenty of people say the system works.
but canada has a better system according to real data and stats, they even live longer than americans

Bettering schools? Explain what you mean by bettering schools. I believe that education is a vital key to any society, and should be one of our top priorities.
that came out wrong, i meant to say pro-lifers like a lot of the religious right reject education that would otherwise give children a better education.
such as comprehensive sex ed

And for your last statement, I've NEVER met a person that thinks a baby should fend for themselves. A grown person, however, can fend for themselves if that is what your getting at. A man reaches a certain age when he needs to take his mother's breast out of his mouth and grow up.
i was referring to children, i know babies are unable to help themselves.you just prove my point, "they need to grow up" as if growing up is stop needing people.
 
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Hey I have no trouble being called anti-choice. There are a lot of things I am anti-choice about. I am anti-choice when it comes to my neighbors choice to break and steal my belongings. I am anti-choice when it comes to government officials taking bribes and kickbacks, I am anti-choice when it comes to the guy who lives down the street choosing to rape our 11 year old neighbor (old neighborhood not new) I really don't mind being called anti-choice because there are simply somethings that we shouldn't have a choice about. Obviously many will disagree with me about where the line should be drawn but I have never encountered anyone who wasn't confined to a mental health facility who actually believe we should have a choice about everything.
i agree with you, but i'm having trouble with what the post has to do with abortion since everything you just listed is illegal and if allowed would destroy society(can't trust people, no trust, no society)
i don't think not wanting people to murder you is "anti-choice"
 
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aparently your also anti choice when it comes what a person can and can do with their body. You would rather the government decided those kinds of things?

If you are speaking anti-choice as in abortion you would be correct. Well actually not truly correct as I would prefer for the life about to be ended have a voice. The courts have consistently ruled that in most circumstances it is reasonable to believe that a dieing human being would chose to live. That is one of the reasons that a Paramedic cannot simply choose to let someone die. The assumption (which has been upheld by both Federal and State Courts) has been that that life which cannot speak for itself would choose to live if it could.


And again I'm not ashamed to be anti-choice when it comes to abortion.
 
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i agree with you, but i'm having trouble with what the post has to do with abortion since everything you just listed is illegal and if allowed would destroy society(can't trust people, no trust, no society)
i don't think not wanting people to murder you is "anti-choice"

Must it be pointed out that at one time slavery was legal? Just because it is legal doesn't make it moral. My whole problem with the "trust" issue is that the child isn't being given the opportunity to practice choice of anything. There is certainly no trust being placed in the child. I personally believe that Abortion in this country is destroying this country just as you pointed out the other issues would do.
 
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Must it be pointed out that at one time slavery was legal? Just because it is legal doesn't make it moral.
shall i point out that at the time and long before it, it was considered moral? just because its immoral to you doesn't mean it shouldn't be legal.
ironically this is pretty much the argument for everything in this forum:p

My whole problem with the "trust" issue is that the child isn't being given the opportunity to practice choice of anything. There is certainly no trust being placed in the child.
i'm not even sure what you are talking about? the trust i was talking about was in reference between two or more people that could benefit from doing so.
there has to be some reason to trust people for each side, or the world would be like the mad max movies.
of course being related has that trust built in.
there isn't any "child" to make that choice so i don't know why that was brought up anyway
I personally believe that Abortion in this country is destroying this country just as you pointed out the other issues would do.
how so? abortion isn't remotely related to the things i listed, i don't see anyone ever thinking "oh no! he's going to abort me!":doh:
being paranoid into thinking everyone is going to murder you for your food, your wife, or your cattle would destabilize society, uh abortion would not since it doesn't relate to interaction with other people at all.:doh:

honestly thats just plain absurd to think legal abortion is on the same level as free reign to murder or steal.
 
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