Should abortion be legal?

Why is a brain so important?

 

I believe it should be legal, it's the mothers choice. I'm not highly educated on the topic but in no way do I believe it's murder of any kind.

 

So you are fine with aborting the baby a week before the due date? Or are you just saying you wouldn't consider it murder?

Are you ok with it?

 

I don't consider it murder. As for the emotional side, I'm a bit perplexed as to why they would abort so late, given they've gone through the arduous process pregnancy is. Having said that, I respect it's their decision. To put it into more recognizable terms, I'd be more sad that my neighbours dog died.

No, I'm not ok with people putting babies into blenders as we have a moral duty to them and they're not violating anyone's rights by simply living.

 

Wow. I don't even know what to say. That is surprising to me that someone wouldn't mind killing a baby a week before the due date. You don't feel that the baby is human at all? Is that because you consider it a parasite?

 

im guessing he would have no problem killing someone who was in a coma then as well.
seeing as they have no rationality...

even though that would obviously still be murder

 

Abortion is wrong IMO,
Because you kill something.
And that is murder, IMO.
A 3-month old, or a born baby.
You're taking away someone's life.
I don't see the point at all in abortion,
You're just taking someone's life away...

 

Abortion should be legal. First off, it's their life and body and noone but them can decide over it. Second, there could be reasons in which abortion is the only choice. Rape, weak body, no money, etc.

 

It's more to do with the fact that it's the womans body, the fetus has no right to be in her body and is violating her rights. As such, she is allowed to remove the fetus. This is different from a born child as whether or not they have rights, they are not violating anyones rights by simply being alive.

Someone in a coma has previously had rationality which is different from probably obtaining rationality in the future. Even still, if someone has no rights, then they are property. Property has ownership, unless you 'own' the person in a coma, you can't kill them without violating someone elses rights, ergo, I would have a problem killing them as a) they've previously had rationality, and b) they're someone elses property.

It's only murder if you kill someone with rights. If they have no rights, then this is a contradiction to that statement. If they do have rights then how would I have no problem killing them?

Do you wash your hands? You're killing life.
Why do you privilege human life as opposed to any other species?

 

I say no it shouldn't be legal unless extreme circumstances like rape.

 

Why do you think that?

 

That wasn't actually the main point of what I was saying

Is what I was aiming at getting across

 

I quoted a different section in your post.

When do duties get ascribed to humans then? While I understand certainly not during pregnancy, still curious as to where our 'duties' come in.

The problem is that I don't particularly like hinging a debate on legal definitions is that they are subjective (I think they should be supplementary for relevance). Evidence of this can be seen in the different laws in all the different countries, the different wordings, etc. What if the legal definition was amended one day due to Pro-Life activists and rights now included a fetus. Would you still be accepting of abortion?

 

Religion is the main arguement against abortion. Abortion at very early stages of pregnancy should be pregnant.
5+ months should be illegal to abort unless the baby has significant defects.

 

I think it should be legal but their are whores running around where I live that basically just look at abortion as another form of birth control.

I just don't see how anyone could be fine and sleep at night doing that.

 

That's a bit arbitrary. Why not 5 months and 11 days +?

What is the difference @ 4 months and @ 6 months? The difference must clearly be stark - what suddenly forms in the baby that gives it rights?

If they find no moral compunction against abortion, then that is how. Given that your post implies you have a moral compunction with aborting an embryo, why?

 

To the above post, don't see how anyone with any common sense can 100% agree with abortion when they are alive.

 

So what? Bacteria is alive on your hands, why do you wash them?

 

I honestly can't seem to figure out why I find it wrong. Something is wrong about it though. Killing the baby in your stomach is basically taking the easy way out. I think that might be what annoys me the most.

When I think of someone getting an abortion I think of a careless, lazy individual who has no problem killing something that is living simply because they are careless/lazy.

Considering an unborn child isnt bacteria, I don't see how anyone with a bit of sense would think that is a valid argument.

 

The easy way out? That's like saying catching the bus to school is taking the easy way out therefore I find it wrong.

Life will punish them in due course. Leave them, move on, and don't erode freedom.

You said life. A child is a form of life. A bacterium is a form of life. The analogical consistency between these two variables is the reason for them to be valid.
What's so special about this form of life? (Please don't say it's not bacteria, I can find an example from the Animal kingdom if you wish)