If you were a man and had to choose between his wife and an unborn baby, what would you decide?
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Late-term abortion is terrible! it should be stopped completely
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If you were a man and had to choose between his wife and an unborn baby, what would you decide?
Excellent question.
What is "late term"?
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
abortions that happen after 20 weeks
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Shadow Wolf
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No, they should not, because they can be medically necessary to preserve the life and health of the mother.
Should we consider the mother's suffering, as well as the baby's? Must the baby suffer? I doubt the baby is capable of psychic suffering -- being unaware of just about everything. Can s/he not be anaesthetized to prevent physical suffering?
And what about the mother's suffering, if it comes down to a question of her own life being threatened?
Is the psychic suffering of the mother and family a consideration?
What if the baby's discovered to have a disease/defect incompatible with life? Should the family be bankrupted caring for an infant who's only going to live a week? Should they be rendered incapable of properly raising other children? (remember, this is America. These things happen all the time).
And animals. Aren't animals just as capable of suffering as you and me? Yet we kill them by the millions.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
The fetus doesn't have a life, it isn't born, it's loss isn't great.
The mother is someone's daughter, someone's mother, and she is a good friend of mine (someone who had to have an abortion to preserve her life). There is a history, a life, others who depend on her and aren't wanting to needlessly bury a child. This loss is greater.
Orbit
I'm a planet
They are, except for medical reasons.
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
This Unveiled artist wrote in this tread:
If the baby will already die once its born, then there is no need for a abortion (any term). My question is, how can one compare a baby's life to a mother's life? They are both human beings.
Then, another thing is people are more aggressive towards people who hurt children (rather) than those who hurt adults. So, if they care more about a child than the adult now, in late-term abortions when the child is considered a child, why not let the baby live at the expense of the mother's life?
I disagree with my point (mother should die; child should live); but, logically, wouldn't people who care more about child abuse than adult abuse would want the child to live at the expense of his or her mother's lives?
What do you think about that?
Starlight
Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
The babies who is late-term aborted is NOT a fetus anymore. They are babies
Unveiled Artist
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I don't agree with abortion at all. Once there's a heart-beat, that's a child growing (putting aside legal definitions). In late-term abortions, though, I don't see the difference between losing a child after the child is born or before the child is born... the child still grows even after birth so there shouldn't be a "before and after."
Brian2
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There is something in the Bible which tells us that we should not do something evil for the chance that it may cause something good to happen.
This, humans fret about, when their species is chronically overpopulated and overexploiting their habitat.
*long sigh*
*long sigh*
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Saving the mother's life isn't evil. She may be able to get pregnant again. Her children already born cannot get a new mother.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
The fetus has no life outside the mother. There are no memories of birthdays or friends. No personality.
The mother has her family. She has friends and and a history with them. She has dreams and ambitions.
For me the choice is clear health and life are at stake. The mother should live, the fetus should be aborted.
If you're in favour of making it hard to get an abortion early in the pregnancy, then you effectively support late term abortion.Late-term abortion is terrible! it should be stopped completely. Late- term abortion is terrible. Have you ever seen a picture of a late-term aborted child? You clearly see it is a baby. In late- term abortion the baby will suffer so much. The baby will feel so much pain
The babies who is late-term aborted is NOT a fetus anymore. They are babies. It is terrible late term abortions happen. it should be stopped completely !!!
epronovost
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Well they are thinking about the mother dying. Don't you care about a woman's death?
Subduction Zone
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Why should they be illegal? Are you willing to kill both mother and fetus?
In almost all instances late term abortions are driven by medical necessity. In the U.S. abortions are not free, and late term ones are very expensive. People almost always do them out of medical necessity. They are not done for convenience.
Subduction Zone
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Nope, not a baby until it breaths on its own. If one has to use rhetoric that is admitting that one does not have a valid argument. Let's try to leave emotions out of it.
Now it has been pointed out by several people that late term abortions are almost always done for medical necessity. Why make something illegal that does not occur?
epronovost
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The same goes for access to contraceptive, familly planning material and science based sexal education in schools.
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