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Originally Posted by TooMuchButtHair
Explain why a glob of tissue has rights. If that glob of tissue has rights, than every single cell in your body should have the same rights as that aborted tissue. We could take the DNA from the nucleus of any cell in your body and stick it into an egg cell and have a human being - by your convoluted definition anyway. If you want to be natural about it, than every single sperm in your body has the potential to be a baby. Where are there rights? Your being a bit hypocritical. |
Now you're being completely off. I wasn't being hypocritical. I was being logical. Your analogy of comparing a "glob of tissue" to every single cell in our body was not even based to what I was saying. The tissue that is being formed in the mothers womb is uniquely different than any other tissue within the body. At even less than 12 weeks of gestation, the fetus is incredibly complex and human. It is nowhere near our developed state but it is clearly different from other types of tissue, but it's still a human being with rights. You may think this sounds absurd but what I mean by "rights", it should have the right to live. Everyone should have the right to live.
I believe one of the reasons people call for abortion to be legal is, simply put, selfishness. The abortion occurs as the mother (maybe under other's pressure) does not want the baby. Others do not want to feel the guilt of not picking up the pieces to help an unwanted baby. They selfishly want to spend their money on themselves and their wants rather than to sacrifice some for unwanted or unsupported babies. The mother puts her own wants above the baby's needs. In this day of birth control, she forgot to 'choose' abstinence or birth control. Why doesn't anyone expose that the reason for an abortion is simply selfishness? The mother's 'choice' is simply what inconvenience she wants to escape. Also, I discovered an interesting point that was on the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Often, we cannot judge appropriately for our own lives, much less others' lives. Sometimes I say
God knows best when to take a life, often when we do not understand why. Seeing these truths, seeing examples of abortion stories error in judgement as to what is the best way to handle unwanted or what they felt was unhappy, difficult, lives helped me to fall back to the obvious conclusion: We make life, we have no business shortening what we have started.