Ravi Wrote:
Since my feelings on abortion seem to be similar to Annies, I wanted to address this idea. I would like to see abortion made illegal in all but cases of rape, incest, life of mother (not "health" of mother), and during the 1st trimester.
This would only be hypocritical if I was somehow implying that I thought that it was "not killing a human" under these circumstances, but was under any other circumstance. That isn't the case...I believe that life begins at conception and that an abortion stops human life in its earliest stages...I believe that if a woman who is pregnant due to a rape gets an abortion - she is killing a human in its earliest stages.
Therefore, there is nothing hypocritical about the opinion, I believe that all abortion is ending a human life - but that in some cases, the mother should have the right to make that decision...not hypocritical, just a difficult decision and an opinion you might not like very much.
I think that we make judgment calls in our society everyday where we say that some horrible things are not as horrible under some circumstances as they are under others. If you hit and kill a child in your car because you were fiddling with the radio we all understand that that is a VERY different scenario then you hitting and killing a child because that child darted out in front of your car and you could do nothing to stop from hitting him. If you shoot an intruder who is threatening your family we all understand that you are a hero...if you shot a man who walks through your backyard without permission at noon we all understand that you're a triggerhappy nutcase.
Now - you may not feel that a woman who has been violated in one of the most intimate and unimaginably horrible ways possible deserves to make the decision as to whether or not she goes through with an amazingly intense and intimate process of a pregnancy...but I, and many other people do.
If she chooses not to...I believe that she is killing a human in its earliest stages. I wish she would not make that choice. And, because I support EDUCATED choices, I would like her to receive counseling about the number of women who have chosen to carry the babies conceived from rape to term and the healing they found through that process, just like I would like them to receive information about their choice if they choose to abort. But...I think she should have the choice. Again...its not hypocritical to want a woman to have that choice...its just a difficult choice that I feel women should have the right to make.
Again, since Annie was agreeing with me...I wanted to repeat what I stated earlier...that even if this video was a phony - which we have yet to have any proof that it is - Planned Parenthoods have been found guilty of doing this in numerous other locations...and, in my opinion, it is often an example of a kind-hearted nurse, doctor or other employee who genuinely thinks that they are helping the girl "more" by ignoring the law. My problem with this is, of course - what is the point of these laws that are supposed to protect young women - if the medical providers who are supposed to be the responsible parties aren't following them?