When should abortion be legal? - JohnFx's opinion

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Oct 27, 2015

This is one issue where I think people argue around the edges. I will say that I believe the only correct answers are always and never. The middle ground is all equivocation and red-herrings.

The bottom line is that either a fetus IS a human life deserving of the basic human rights or it is not. If the answer to this is the affirmative then abortion for any reason (to me) is immoral. On the contrary, if it is just a cluster of cells like a kidney and not a human deserving of such rights, then why should the Government be involved at all in a medical procedure?

The trouble is that whether the fetus=human or not is very subjective and philosophical, but without such an answer the rest of the debate is meaningless.

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Mark Wilmut

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Oct 28, 2015

Good, but I still don't know your opinion. I understand your deductive reasoning, but when you give this case a deeper look, there's only one logical answer. It's of course "Always". When you look at the nature, every species sometimes reject their young, for very different reasons. We humans are developed enough to not cause any pain to our "young". Telling a woman what she has to do with her body, with her child, and with her life, is a Hitler-mentality, a very nasty thing to do. We still have to live around such people, but it's pretty obvious that 100-500 years from now there will be no "pro-life" personages. Let me remind you that while we were sending our first probes to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, it was still illegal for a black person and a white person to marry in 16 states.

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JohnFx

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Nov 2, 2015

You could make the same argument about killing children after they are born. Again, It all depends on what side of the philosophical fence you sit on with regard to whether a fetus is human enough to deserve human rights. If not, then you are absolutely right. If so, then I'd argue it just as "hitleresque" to kill humans with wonton disregard.

Your comment about "telling a woman what to do with her body" is a red herring and presumes that both sides of the debate agree on the premise that the fetus is just tissue deserving of those human rights. That is not an agreed upon point, so you can't launch off your argument from that precipice.

Bringing the civil rights movement into this is a red-herring and not relevant and trying to play on emotion.

Understand, I'm not disagreeing with your position, just your argument supporting it.

BTW: My argument is simply "I don't know" and I think that is the only valid argument on this issue.

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