Here's a question for Joe. One half in, one half out. So which is it, a baby or a fetus? It can't be both, now can it? Is it a baby when the feet come out, or is it when the head comes out? Joe has no background in biology, neither do I, but I study it as a hobby.
Seriously, guy, you study law as a hobby. You study biology as a hobby.
HOw about GETTING A ******* JOB AS A HOBBY, you twit!>
Here's the problem with this argument, moron. Less than 1% of abortions are performed after 21 weeks. (No fetus younger than 21 weeks has survived outside the womb, ever.) When these types of procedures are performed, it is almost always because some medical issue has come up where the fetus is horribly deformed. Yet you ghouls will harp on this procedure because a drawing of it looks kind of like a baby.
But I can use his twisted logic against him. His hypocrisy about children, born or in the womb has been on display for weeks now. He whines about compassion for those children at the border, but oh, doesn't give a damn about the ones they kill in the womb. The hypocrisy is stark, mind you. He would subsidize their parents, keep them in relative poverty and dependence on almighty government, give these children a sub par education if they are indeed born and grow up... he'll even have the guts to call it compassion.
I think the vast majority of these kids at the border right now need to be sent back to their own countries, after their parents have been located and identified. So I'm not sure why you want to discuss with me an argument I really didn't make or even had that much interest in.
That said, fetuses aren't children. I honestly wish poor people had more access to abortion and birth control, because that would be the best route out of poverty for them.
So, how is "taking the food from the mouths of children" worse than taking the life from ones in the womb? Food... or life. Oooh, thats a tricky one. What good is food to a child when they're dead?
Chew on that one, Joe.
Again, you are working on the faulty premise that a fetus, which at 8-12 weeks is an inch long and could not survive outside the womb under any circumstances, is anything like a child.
Now, here's the thing. I'm not about "morality", because that's subjective, especially when talking to mopes like you who believe in imaginary sky pixies. I'm about policy. What policies bring about the desired results.
If you guys were truly serious about reducing the number of abortions, you'd want us to be like France, which has half the abortions per capita that the United States has. They have socialized medicine, paid family and medical leave, and when a woman has a baby, they send a government worker around for the first couple months to help her get on with chores.
But it isn't really about the "babies' with you guys. It's about imposing your beliefs on women, because deep down, a lot of you are serious misogynists. The thing is, your policies don't really prevent abortions.
I give you the counter-example. In the Philippines, abortion is illegal. Yet is is estimated that 500,000 to 800,000 illegal abortions are performed every year, and 4200 Filipinas die every year due to botched abortions. Per capita, they have more abortions than the US. But those manly men got their Godly laws, that was the important thing.