Pro-choice?
Abortion. Even the word has an unfinished air about it. I feel like its a cop out. For those who do it out of selfishness- the people involved in this unborn child’s existance don’t want the troubles of having to support and care for someone that THEY are responsible for creating. If someone feels they are mature enough to have sex, don’t you think they should take on the responsibility of a possible child? Thats what sex is there for, to reproduce. Its selfish to say that it would be “inconveniant” and make the choice to just rid of a life. The argument is that the lifeform growing inside of a woman is not ‘alive’ until a certain stage. Well let me just define the word ‘living’ for you.
To be alive you must meet these requirments:
1) Growth (the baby is growing obviously)
2)Reproduction (although the reproductive organs are not yet identifiable, they are developing)
3)Obtaining nutrients (Transferred from the mom to the baby)
4)Respiration(The baby gets oxygen from the umbilical cord)
5)Interact by stimuli response (respond to sugar stimuli for example)
6)Adapt/evolve(evolves from one cell)
7)Made up of cells(it even starts as one)
8)Excretion(excretes urine into the amniotic sac)
A fetus meets all of these requirments, so in scientific theory, it is alive. Some people argue that it cannot breathe on its own, or ’think’ so its not ‘human’ or ‘alive’. Well answer me this then. If someone gets in a car accident and need to be hooked up to an IV and oxygen machine, are they any less alive or human than the rest of us? When someone grows old and their heart and liver begin to fail, and they cant walk or function as we can, should we kill them because they dont live up to human standards? You may think that thats a totally different story, but its not. Abortion is usually done around 6 weeks, which is actually the babies 4th week since they start counting after the woman’s last period. At this time, there are already brain waves being recorded and the heart is beating. Some women even get abortions when the baby is 20-24 weeks old, and there is evidence that the baby can feel extreme pain. The procedure (a ‘partial birth’ abortion) involves the doctor first grabbing the baby’s leg with forceps, pulling it out into the birth canal, and delivering the baby so that just the head is left inside the mother. The doctor then jabs scissors into the babies skull and opens them to enlarge the hole where a suction catheter is inserted and the baby’s brains are suctioned out. The skull collapses and the dead baby is removed. Babies born at 24 weeks have more than a 50% chance of survival!
A good question is if its right for a woman raped by her father, or just raped in general, to abort the child. If put in that situation I have no honest idea what I would do. I understand why women would do it, its just a matter of moral standing. I think its wrong for a woman to think that the baby is a part of their body so its their choice if it lives or not. It only has half of her chromosomes first of all, and the woman is just acting as a home or habitat for the baby until it can survive outside. If a woman is unhappy with this, and thinks that she should have the rights to her own body and in so having those rights doesnt want this child using her as a home, then she shouldn’t have sex. We can live without sex, but wouldnt have been alive today if our mothers had had abortions.
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So can I choose to commit suicide? Isn’t that controlling my own body, to end my life?
Yes, I am fully aware that this is my own maybe even naive opinion, but forming your own opinions is almost like creating yourself. I’d rather create myself rather than a cheap model of another.
I’m glad you have your own opinion. Everyone should. I just hope that if it happened to your friend, you would support her instead of judging her.
It’s kinda like how you don’t like vegetarians judging you for being responsible for the torture and suffering endured by the thousands of living animals that you’ve eaten over the years.
They must think you’re pretty irresponsible and cruel. But do they judge you? Do they call you an animal killer?
I’ll bet they don’t.
By the way, all of those animals would qualify as life under your umbrella of arbitrarily assigned “scientific requirments.”
And..
“That’s what the sex is there for, to reproduce.”
A bit too cold. I think some people associate it with love as well. Just a thought.
You need to review the situation Rachel.
First you wrote about how some women simply “dispose of a life.” I found this to be a HIGHLY insensitive thing to say, and you should have expected someone might get hurt reading that. By now I’m sure you’ve realized that I was seriously offended.
If you want to publish blogs describing your opinions on highly sensitive issues, be prepared to face passionate arguments, even from friends. I wouldn’t be much of a friend if I pretended to agree with you on everything.
As for personally attacking you, I don’t think I did. If you read closely, I wrote “I hope you wouldn’t judge her.” I make no accusations towards you. But judging from your first entry about “disposing of a life”… you have to admit… it’s not exactly what I’d call ‘considerate.’
All I’m saying is that if you write about this stuff, expect a bit of heat from your readers. Doesn’t mean we are attacking each other personally. I like the fact that you spoke your mind… but that doesn’t mean I can’t disagree if I want to.
I think it is the womans choice. Thats all I can say. They need to think about the child as well and astray from being selfish. I think it is a selfish act, but I am understanding of situations. I feel that the 5% or so that actually abort due to rape and incest, have a right to choose, as do others. BUT ABORTION IS BY NO MEANS AWAY TO RID ONE’S SELF FROM INCONVENIENCE! Life is a Tricky thing. DO people really have the right to play God?
I’m not so sure they do.
Don’t talk about people playing God. God has nothing to do with it. By saying people you assume everyone believes in God. Just don’t lol.
calm yourself, there was nothing wrong in using the statement “playing god”. it in no way implies that everyone believes in god, he’s not even saying that he believes in god. he’s simply saying that by choosing whether another person lives or dies, you’re making a decision that isn’t really yours to make.