I hope you aren't trying to imply there were no abortions before they became legal?
@sneakypete Naw. But there were damn few by comparison.
Uh,huh. A month old fetus is the same as a two year old live child?
Funny thing you know... 'fetus' is just Latin for 'baby'...
And yes - They are the same. If a pregnant woman is killed, why is the murderer charged with two counts?
A child is a child. A distinction without a difference.
Not sure I understand your point on that one.
I have already said, several times, that I would settle for turning the issue back to the states, and for exceptions in the case of rape and incest (if that were possible) - The reason exceptions for rape and incest are not possible is that a simple claim of rape - with no evidence one way or another - just means everyone will claim rape and nothing will change.
You should read Reagan on this stuff. Look at what he tried to do in allowing abortion in a fair and balanced way in California, to make it rare but accessible in cases of rape, incest, and medical necessity. He went out of his way to be reasonable - But all it took was a panel of 10 doctors willing to rubber stamp cases and abortion took off like a rocket - He thought it the worst mistake he ever made.
For you and others who think like you,but nobody died and made you "Masters of the Universe". I suspect you are even a minority of the population,although I also suspect most of the people who disagree with you are prone to remain silent on this issue so they aren't lumped in with the radical left protestors.
No. It is philosophically and morally bankrupt as a matter of contradiction, according to every major religion and philosophy of any historical weight. I don't care who disagrees with me. It is a direct in-your-face contradiction of every meaningful description of life's sanctity.
So,now you are claiming you become a live human at conception? You are not. You are a nothing more than a parasite inside the body of your mother until birth that has the POTENTIAL to develop into a human being. A fetus will feed off her and be completely dependent on her for absolutely everything until birth.
More liberal claptrap. OF COURSE you are a human at conception. Unique from all others the minute your DNA is modeled at the making of the first cell. Left to it's own devices in its natural environment, what do you think it is, a chicken? It is a baby. By every historical and cultural norm. A woman who is pregnant is 'with child' from the moment she knows. When a woman experiences a miscarriage she has 'lost her baby'.
You have done nothing but fall for the liberal slicing and dicing of historical norms - Again, the hubris of modernity. What has been for long ages does not change simply because somebody changes the words in the definition. What it is remains the same regardless.
