Explain...?
Is Abortion Murder?
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It is done quite often in the case of a couple; one makes the medical decisions for the other, including discontinuance of life support.
OK. At six months gestational time, the number of cells and the differentiation of structures has reached a plateau in the developing fetus; the next big structural change (beyond simple size changes) happens at puberty. Does that mean that a six month old fetus is human, but a five month old one is not?
Yet we read stories where that option is denied. Also, we must assume that normal life is beyond reach for that person, where an infant, in most pregnancies, shows all hope of a fully functional existence.
We disagree on this point.
Of course. And in many countries the right to an abortion is denied. But here, generally, the right is recognized in both cases.
Again... Explain your reply.
All of our perceived rights are social constructions. To a certain degree our society has already extended rights of physical integrity to a fetus, and when those rights are violated, just as they are with full persons, society imposes punitive sanctions on the violators. The vast majority of women and physicians are socially conditioned to be respectful of the ethical standards that currently govern maternity. Likewise, the vast majority of people are socially conditioned to respect our laws governing assault and murder. Regulation in these two cases is for the minority who for whatever reason fail to acquire or maintain that respect.
Some women and physicians most defiantly are more qualified than a compromised oriented government, but that’s true in all cases of social policy. But at least the government position offers protection from the least qualified side of the equation.
People are born every day and people die every day. Sometimes even the same people.
All these people trying to deny women the choice of whether to gestate - under the banner of "saving the lives of the unborn" - well I don't see those same people making any fuss over the lives of those that have already been born.
All these people trying to deny women the choice of whether to gestate - under the banner of "saving the lives of the unborn" - well I don't see those same people making any fuss over the lives of those that have already been born.
It's not as if humans were so rare that every life is necessary for the survival of the species.
Maybe so...but what value would you place on your own life?
Less that that of those I love, more than that of those I dislike.
You're not looking and quite possibly assuming. I'll give you this, there are many who need our charity, and there is never enough to cover all.
B.S. Most would trade all they have for another minute of life. Life is frivolous only in the minds of those who have it.
As a fetus? Almost none. A miscarriage is hardly the same as a death in the family.
I would suggest that all life struggles to survive, including the fetus. Also, have you ever had a miscarriage?
I see, and you wish to make that struggle much harder than it should be by forcing women to carry children they don't want.
More like give them an opportunity that they otherwise would not have.