Sperm and eggs don't "like" anything, because they aren't organisms, and are incapable of thought or emotion. Biology 101.
Sperm and eggs are "alive" no? Sperm does have instinct to find the egg!
Oh, for crying out loud unprintably! Is it at ALL possible that you uneducated dimwits could enroll in a frigging remedial biology class somewhere and stop expecting me to explain scientific facts so basic that my kids knew and understood them in elementary school? In my state, adult educators get $30-40k a year for doing what you expect me to do for free here.
Yes, body cells are alive. They are not organisms. They are PARTS of organisms. They do not think or "have instinct" in the same sense that an organism does. That's like saying your white blood cells think because they "find" germs and destroy them. Performing their basic cellular function does not indicate any level of thought, not even that of instinct.
I find your attitude of "killing someone is okay, because once they're dead, they don't know the difference" to be intriguing, to say the least.
That is twisting what I said. I am a firm support of abortion in the 1st term! The second term only in the special circumstances (rape, incest or mother's life is in danger). And only in the 3rd term under the rarest circumstances (mother's life is in danger or a genetic defect is discovered).
In other words, you believe exactly what I said you did, which is that some people are disposable because you've determined that they don't know the difference, anyway.
See you don't see view the sperm and egg as alive, when technically both are. My opinion is I don't consider a fetus in as a person (in the first trimester) in the same sense you do, so I don't see it as murder.
Of course I view body cells as alive. I don't view them as separate organisms, because they aren't . . . and because I passed my biology classes in school.
I don't give a rat's ass what your "opinion" is of what a fetus is or isn't, because it's not a matter of opinion. I'm not asking if you think pink or blue is a prettier color. A fetus is what he is, and that's a matter of fact, not up for a vote.
However, in the context of putatively responding to my post, it's irrelevant and non-responsive. You appear to feel that death is better than adoption.
No rather, I feel its best to allow a women to choose freely (during the first trimester and limit it as the pregnancy goes on).
No, you appear to think that death is better than adoption. Don't try to change the subject. This is what you said:
You still have to account for a teen's lack of full maturity and inability to provide for a family.
Please demonstrate to me that, in the context of the conversation that was occurring at that time, that you were NOT saying that being aborted was a better choice for the child than being adopted, since that is the obvious choice - for those of us who don't view babies as disposable, anyway - when a teenager gets pregnant.
I have 3 kids myself and never thought about abortion. Nevertheless, I still think its a right people should have.
Am I supposed to give you a brownie because you only believe in killing OTHER PEOPLE's kids? Is that supposed to be a laudable, praiseworthy attitude? You're actually proud of what a good person you are because you never considered killing your kids?
I pointed out that real, living people who were adopted would be very surprised by that opinion. I didn't say anything about what fetuses, aborted or not, might think.
I have a few cousins who have been adopted and they are firm (to my dismay) liberal Democrats. They support abortion. So go figure.
I didn't say anything about adopted kids being abortion proponents. I said they'd be surprised to hear that THEY, PERSONALLY, would have been better off dead than adopted.
