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Originally Posted by boonior Now you're being completely off. Your analogy of comparing that "glob of tissue" to every single cell in our body, that 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. |
Yeah, it's a human without a brain. If someone's head were cut off, the body could be kept alive - would you give that person the same rights as a person with a head (and, consequently, a brain).
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I believe the reason 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. |
Selfishness!? Isn't it selfish to give birth to a baby that's addicted to crack, and then make it homeless for the rest of it's life? If you say anything except yes, than your moral code needs serious examination.
What about a woman that's raped? She didn't have that kid by choice.
That passage in the Declaration of Indepence has little relevance to something without a brain, doesn't it?
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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.
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Like I said before, a human being is a lot different that human tissue. Differentiating the two is important when considering abortion.
By the way, are you pro-war or anti-war?