Annie
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SpidermanTuba said:You answered your own question. Its because its inside her uterus.
We're not talking about whether its justified or not, we're talking about whether or not its the governments business to own the uterus's of women. There are plenty of things which are morally wrong that are still legal. Abortion is one of them.
Why not? That toddler is a human being, like you or me. The toddler has unique DNA, has feelings, has a beating heart, heck, I say give him a car.
A law which would make abortion illegal except in rape or incest is about as impractical as you can get. You either have to take the woman's word that she was raped - which is as good as having legal abortion - or you have to require that a rapist is found guilty in a court of law, which if it ever happens would happen far longer than 9 months after conception.
Its not a question of whether or not its a human. That's ridiculous. The question is one of where its government's business to go, and it isn't government's business to go inside someone's uterus.
You people are aware that human children actually require being raised, right?
What's the deal with your exception for rapes, anyway? Do you find less value in human life which is the result of a rape? Are children of rapes lesser human beings than you or I, deserving lesser rights? Or does that distinction only apply inside the uterus? Seems a bit of a double standard to me to say that exceptions to rights in the uterus apply for the views you hold but not for mine.
If you believe abortion should be illegal except in the case of rape, you have already acknowledged that a human life's rights are different if they are inside someone's womb. If you believe the mother's life should be chosen over the fetus's, if it comes down to a choice between the two, you have already decided the mother's life to be more valuable. Thus you are making the same sorts of distinctions - between life in a uterus, and life outside a uterus - as pro-choicers are.
Unlike you ST, some of us do desire to protect the innocent. Yeah, children that are the result of rape, need protection, though nearly all Americans would go along with D&C through the first trimester in he case of rape.