But what if they do make the decision, and the technology fails? Happens all the time-- even the very best contraceptives can fail.
Yes-- even surgical sterilization can fail. What then?
Your sort would force an expensive baby onto a couple who were being responsible, but stuff happens, sometimes.
All because you have this religious belief that a blob of cells is magically a "baby".
My position on abortion has nothing to do with my religion.
It is based upon one thing: there is no magic line in the development of a human, between conception and death at old age, where SCIENCE, or medicine, says 'here is a human being,' where an instant before it was something else that could be anything else.
That 'blob of cells' is a human in a specific stage of development. It's not a baby. It's not a toddler. It's not a teenager or an adult or an old doddering septuagenarian. However, that old, doddering septuagenarian was once a blob of cells just like the one you are dismissing. We ALL went through that stage, every single one of us.
If you can show me a medical and scientific line...not a CULTURAL or "convenient because we want to be able to kill it before it gets there" line, where that human individual is something other than a human individual who will become a human adult....if it does not die first, I might listen.
If you can show me where there is any point at which that 'blob of cells' can become anything OTHER than a human adult if it isn't killed first, I might listen.
I mean...a hippopotamus, perhaps? Golden Eagle, maybe? a rock in the Grand Tetons? a zombie pigmy goat?
There is really no getting around this, and I wish you guys would at least be honest about this, at the very least. Abortion means ending the life of a human individual who, given a chance to grow, be born and live, will become a human adult. It can't become anything else.
You are killing a human being. Human....and 'being' because it is living. You are killing it BECAUSE it is a living human who will become a baby/toddler/adult, in order to keep it from doing so.
Some people are more honest about this. One of my 'history stories' is about a mob who attacked a group of Mormons at a place called Haun's Mill, killing 19 men and boys. One of those boys was 9 years old. He was dragged out from under a table, and shot in the head. The man who did it said.."nits make lice, and he would have been a Mormon when he grew up."
It is just. like. that. Abortion is a 'nits make lice' decision. You are killing a human in order to keep it from growing up, and I honestly do not see a difference between abortion and what that man did to 9 year old Sardius Smith.
No difference at all.
Culture can decide what 'person' is. Cultures have OK'd the killing of offspring from infancy to just before adulthood, at puberty or as old as 21, in some places and times. Culture's definitions and declarations are changable. The facts of science are not. So you go ahead. You show me where, in the development of a conceptus right through to birth, that instant where SCIENCE says that this little 'blob of cells' containing the DNA map of a specific human being becomes a person with a right to attempt to survive, where an instant before it was not.
Go ahead. Give it a go.
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...........standard disclaimer: my opinion is about those who have entered into consensual sex as adults, in full understanding that sex produces babies, and does not apply to those who are victims of rape, incest, whose lives are at grave risk because of pregnancy, or when the fetus is so badly damaged that it cannot survive outside the womb even at full term.
