All potentially valid reasons for abortion - IF a pregnancy is not a life. If it is - and this is a huge "if" - it deserves the same consideration as you claim for the mother. This is not a religious concept.
No, the problem is that by this religious definition (Legally, a person isn't a person until he is born, period.) that the glob of meat would have MORE rights than the woman it is inside.
Is it a Freudian slip that the "glob of meat" from your prior post has become a "baby" or an unwanted "child" in this one?
Naw, just don't want to type out "unviable mass of tissue" every time... it's time consuming.
Though you obviously think abortion is permissible, could we agree that is not desirable, and that both unwanted pregnancy and abortion should be avoided if possible? If so, keep reading...
I wouldn't agree on that at all. I have no real problem with abortion, and if it pisses the religious assholes off, so much the better.
Now, if you guys were serious about LESS unwanted pregnancies and abortions, you could support better sex education, the availability of contraception, paid family leave, universal health care... you know, all the stuff the social democracies in Europe are doing.
Your first reasons - rape, deformity, risk to health - are largely unavoidable. No one desires rape, a horribly deformed baby, or a risk to their own health. But let's contrast these reasons to your other reasons: "wouldn't work at this point in life", "just getting established in career", and "drunken hookup". These two sets of "reasons for abortion" are hugely different, and I believe that to class them together does a great injustice to women.
But the thing is, if you say one is okay, but the other isn't, then you are doing an injustice to the globs of meat you are trying to pass off as people and give more rights than the women they are inside.
Now, to a degree, I think our culture has changed. A woman often doesn't come into her own until she's pushing 30. That's how long it takes to graduate college, get established in her career, and then start making babies...and the biological clock is running out. Not sure how to fix it, but letting the religious nutters push us back to the 1920's isn't the answer.
By conflating all potential reasons for abortion, you give equal credence to women who find themselves in the tragedy of rape and those women who just want to avoid the consequences of a "drunken hookup". If abortion is undesirable, is it fair to plead all these cases as being the same?
It's only undesirable to you. If you want to say a glob of meat is a person, then he's a person even if a rapist created him. We don't execute people for crimes their parents commit. So once you said that glob of meat isn't a person, then you've conceded drunken hookup glob of meat isn't either.
You see where I'm headed here? I'm anti-abortion, but I recognize that not everyone agrees with me. So I'm arguing for compromise, a principle that is central to our governmental system but largely forgotten in today's radical political environment. It's clear that you are not open to this, but I write in hopes that others might be encouraged.
Okay, here's my comprimise... if you don't like abortion, don't have one. This decision should only be made by a woman and her doctor, period. Otherwise mind your own business.
