Quote from rcanfiel:
1. And what then, is wrong with aborting your husband? If he abuses her? If she gets tired of carrying her marriage "to term"?
2. What is wrong with aborting her "already-born" children if she gets tired of them? or doesn't want to have them? Or they don't listen?
3. If a criminal shoots the woman in the stomach and kills the baby, why then does the law hold the shooter responsible for the baby's death? Why not the doctor who aborts?
4. If she aborts it 5 minutes before birth, is it abortion or murder? IF she suffocates it 5 minutes after birth, is it abortion or murder? Why or why not? Life begins at conception. There is nothing special about birth, except one starts sucking air instead of sucking juice through the placenta.
5. If a 16 year old girl shot her mother, who was trying to kill her 2 year old brother, would it be self-defense? or her 5-minute old brother? or if her mother went after 5-minute-before-birth brother with a coat hangar?
ok i'll oblige...
i'll apply 2 straightforward standards:
a. what happens inside a woman's body is her sole & only responsibility regardless of age.
b. any aggression against a pregnant women with intent to harm the fetus against her will is a severe crime, falls under extreme cruelty. in particular any physical aggression against a child-bearing girl by a parent for any reason whatsoever is a severe crime
1. irrelevant. if you mean "murder" then you've got your answer. if you mean "divorce" then it don't see the problem... if it was an attempt at humor, try not to waste people's time...
2. clearcut murder
3. there is no baby there. just a developing organism inside one and only one sovereign human person. apply standards a. & b.
4. apply a. before birth (show me instances of mothers aborting 5 minutes "before birth" please...). after birth, its murder. why this "arbirtrary" line? because free speech aside, no one should be allowed to "arbitrarily" legiferate nor issue fatwas nor any manner of religious "opinions" over what happens INSIDE someone's else body againt that person's will, moron!
5. attempting to protect somebody else's life doesn't qualify as self-defense... in your latter case, there are only 2 persons involved, its pretty clear who the aggressor is
if you'd like to change that into: "or if her mother went after the girl's 5-minute-before-birth fetus with a coat hangar?", b. would apply
and thks i know what gametes are, i could've used fertilized eggs as an example just the same... a girl/woman who ends up pregnant without intent of doing so has every right to resort to any measures she sees fit to abort the unwanted pregnancy
Note: with proper parenting, proper sex education and encouraged use of the pill, you'll most likely stay out of trouble. A girl/woman who's had to have an abortion once is unlikely to want to have to do it again when alternative and less brutal contraceptive means are available...
Note 2: one can have a bio degree and still be a bigot...