I don't know how many times this has been brought up on these forums, but I'll post it here.
How goes your opinions on abortion?
This is the way I see it.
I don't think people (even hypothetically if they weren't women) should be forced into having a child.
1 factor. We have a gobal population now of 6 billion.
There are over 200 million people suffering from malnutrition and on the brink of starving to death in Africa alone.
With our current population, we are draining more resources than the earth has to offer.
This breaks down into another topic (all part of my point). Generally the process of pregnancy - a woman and man have sex, and most babies are not born prior to 8 months afterward.
So what about all the people who have sex without protection, but the pregnancy is not successful due to an infertility problem? And the people that use protection? And the miscarriages?
This means a WHOLE lot of people are having sex. Aside from the human death rate, we have 6 billion people currently (which it took well over 6 billion births to make, with the exception of twins and multiple births), and sex not resulting in pregnancy occurring all the time (how many couples over average have sex once a day and never have kids? and are married and in fertile stages for over 20 years?) Not including issues like rape.
So what options does this leave us with? Either humans stop having sex (the most wonderful notion you've ever heard huh), or rely on some form of birth control, which obviously is not always effective (not to mention unavailable to many people having sex). Or, abortion. If you give a child up for adoption, the child will still live and add to the human population pool.
And what about the people that coming about in this world? It is true you could give birth to another Mother Teresa - but it is also possible you can give birth to another Hilter. No matter how often you spank children, you can never control who people choose to be (unless you use force which is illegal except in places like Afghanistan, until recently - even then you can't stop people until you have incapacitated them).
We humans have already dragged ourselves into what is, primarily (even if 40% to 60%, IMO at least) a not so good world (just turn on the news) and situation; which I think we would have a VERY hard time pulling ourselves out of (I do not suspect there will be any living human beings on earth by 2100, the population and destruction of the environment is too great).
I feel women should have the right to a safe abortion rather than going into a back street alley and looking for someone with a coat hanger.
I saw this idiot on Fox News channel tonight. When the reporter asked him (almost in a confronting manner for him to reveal what he does, he is accused of taking pictures of women entering clinics, and posting them on the internet), "Do you climb on ladders to get around the barriers posted to keep you out, and shout at women entering clinics 'you will have nightmares for the rest of your life, your soul will burn forever in hell'? There was about a 5 second pause where he stared into the camera before finally saying "Uh, I use certain phrases in conjunction with bibical quotes to counsel women and try to get them to change their mind"
As GoofyFish would say. Peace
How goes your opinions on abortion?
This is the way I see it.
I don't think people (even hypothetically if they weren't women) should be forced into having a child.
1 factor. We have a gobal population now of 6 billion.
There are over 200 million people suffering from malnutrition and on the brink of starving to death in Africa alone.
With our current population, we are draining more resources than the earth has to offer.
This breaks down into another topic (all part of my point). Generally the process of pregnancy - a woman and man have sex, and most babies are not born prior to 8 months afterward.
So what about all the people who have sex without protection, but the pregnancy is not successful due to an infertility problem? And the people that use protection? And the miscarriages?
This means a WHOLE lot of people are having sex. Aside from the human death rate, we have 6 billion people currently (which it took well over 6 billion births to make, with the exception of twins and multiple births), and sex not resulting in pregnancy occurring all the time (how many couples over average have sex once a day and never have kids? and are married and in fertile stages for over 20 years?) Not including issues like rape.
So what options does this leave us with? Either humans stop having sex (the most wonderful notion you've ever heard huh), or rely on some form of birth control, which obviously is not always effective (not to mention unavailable to many people having sex). Or, abortion. If you give a child up for adoption, the child will still live and add to the human population pool.
And what about the people that coming about in this world? It is true you could give birth to another Mother Teresa - but it is also possible you can give birth to another Hilter. No matter how often you spank children, you can never control who people choose to be (unless you use force which is illegal except in places like Afghanistan, until recently - even then you can't stop people until you have incapacitated them).
We humans have already dragged ourselves into what is, primarily (even if 40% to 60%, IMO at least) a not so good world (just turn on the news) and situation; which I think we would have a VERY hard time pulling ourselves out of (I do not suspect there will be any living human beings on earth by 2100, the population and destruction of the environment is too great).
I feel women should have the right to a safe abortion rather than going into a back street alley and looking for someone with a coat hanger.
I saw this idiot on Fox News channel tonight. When the reporter asked him (almost in a confronting manner for him to reveal what he does, he is accused of taking pictures of women entering clinics, and posting them on the internet), "Do you climb on ladders to get around the barriers posted to keep you out, and shout at women entering clinics 'you will have nightmares for the rest of your life, your soul will burn forever in hell'? There was about a 5 second pause where he stared into the camera before finally saying "Uh, I use certain phrases in conjunction with bibical quotes to counsel women and try to get them to change their mind"
As GoofyFish would say. Peace