LogicSoDeveloped
Bluelighter
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God im so ready to leave the south shit is gettong crazy here.
It's always been crazy here.
God im so ready to leave the south shit is gettong crazy here.
By not choosing to abort, and choosing to continue her addiction, she did something that I find reprehensible. I would not charge her with murder or manslaughter, as I said earlier, but something like negligence.
You are both pro-life, then?
no im pro choice
but if you dont choose to abort a baby and use drugs that kill it or have it born mentally retarded you should go to jail
Essentially, you are saying that, for unborn humans, involuntary manslaughter is worse than homicide. Clearly, when discussing birthed humans, homicide is considered to be the more serious criminal act. How can you just arbitrarily reverse this for unborn humans?
, you are missing the point, at least in my mind.Using drugs to kill your baby IS abortion.
Choosing to abort a fetus is a terrible thing. I find it incredibly sad. However, I find the potential choices - including allowing the fetus to be born and live a life without being wanted, and to wreck at least the mother's life in the process - to be roughly equally sad. Whether abortion is "murder" is a very difficult question, but it is this difficulty which makes me believe that it should be legal (with several other thoughts factoring in). To have the government make the final determination for such a sticky question is simply wrong.
However, once the reasonable (safe and most humane) period has passed, it becomes more clear that killing a fetus is not right. Once the baby is born, certainly, but a few minutes beforehand as well, it seems to me to be a cruel act. A day before birth is essentially equally cruel. Once a woman has accepted responsibility for the pregnancy and the life of the unborn, she must not squander its life.
In essence, there are two reasons why, when you say , you are missing the point, at least in my mind.
a) The timing of the event.
b) The responsibility of the pregnant woman.
Past a certain point - which I would rather refrain from determining too concretely, but let's say for argument's sake either the first or second trimester - it becomes the woman's job to protect the fetus. Except for e.g. health reasons, I would prefer to make late-term abortions illegal, or impossible. A pregnant woman has (e.g.) 3 months to make up her mind, and once she decides not to abort the fetus, it becomes her job to raise it to adulthood. Even if she really wants to smoke some more crack.