Reply #146: But many people don't see abortion as killing [View All]

[Heddi]

just as many do.

Many people have no ethical or moral concerns about abortion, but many others do.

I don't understand why abortion is "murder" if my BC fails, but it's practically sacrosant should I be raped.

Why is it murder in one respect, but okee dokee in another?

If you advocate (editorial 'you') that abortion is murder, then abortion in the case of rape, incest, and mother's health is murder too. Why is it acceptable murder in one set of situations, but absolutely unacceptable in another?

How do we prove rape? What if I had sex with my husband today, and was raped tomorrow and became pregnant? How do I know who the father is? How do I know if it was the product of a loving relationship, or a horrid violent crime? Who gets to decide?

What if the rape wasn't reported initially, but the woman is found to be pregnant months later? Is the onus on her to prove that rape occured?

Do you think that if rape and incest are the ONLY acceptable reasons for abortion to occur, that there would most likely in some situations be an INCREASE in the number of false rape charges that are made?

How do you reconcile that not every person who is of reproductive age is fit to be a parent? Maybe I'm the most awful person in the world, and I know that. I know that I live in a dysfunctional relationship, that I heavily abuse alcohol and other drugs, and that the man I live with is a sexual predator. SO I take birth control but it fails. Are you saying its BETTER to bring a child into the world, to be raised by people/person who have ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT to ever be around children than it would be to terminate the pregnancy within the first 3 months before any neural processes are even developed? Before lungs are even formed? Before this fetus isn't any more than 1/3 of an inch long? It's better to have a child live in a known abusive situation, with no love, with no one there to advocate for it, than it is to have an abortion?

Do you honestly believe that the minute birth occurs, every BAD thing in your life goes away? Suddenly that $5.50 an hour job pays $45k a year? Suddenly your abusive husband/boyfriend/self becomes Mr/Ms Congeniality? That your lack of medical insurance goes away? That your undying desire to NOT have another child/a first child suddenly goes away? That your medical condition that while it may not kill you, but will be aggrivated by pregnancy, will just not occur?

Don't you see that whether you call it murder or abortion, or a fetus or a baby, or say that it should only be legal in rare circumstances---don't you see that no matter how much you try to legislate someone ELSE'S life, there will ALWAYS be women and men and families for whom abortion is the ONLY choice available to them. There will ALWAYS be women who have abortions performed on them irregardless of whether you agree with their reasons or not.

Why should THEY have to be forced with unsterile situations, untrained individuals, and unregulated procedures because YOU aren't comfortable with the procedure?

making it illegal won't make it go away, you know.