You still don't seem to understand. Pregnancy is not one year of pain for a woman. Having a baby, even if you give it up for adoption, changes so many aspects of your life permanently. Maybe you don't get it because you can't get pregnant and have never spent a lot of time with someone who was, but it's not some easy thing that is over in a few months and then your body is completely back to normal.
Ok. I can accept that.
But here's the real ringer. The woman is still ALIVE. The fetus is not. And yes while she will feel the effects of the pregnancy the rest of her life. She will not be dead, unlike the fetus she should chose to abort.
Calling a woman who doesn't want to go through that for something that isn't even a human being is not selfish, it's absolutely disgusting that you are calling her that. The only selfish ones are the people who don't have to go through the pregnancy telling a woman she has to.
There really is no argument here.
Here is the dictionary definition of "Selfish"
(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.
How would the people who care for the fetus "the selfish ones?" They are thinking about the life of something other than their own, yet the mother is not doing that.
Now, by definition, this act would be considered selfish. The real question is "Is it moral for her to do this selfish act." That is what the debate is really about, not whether or not it is selfish.
EDIT: (Also, not to say its KIND to say someone is selfish, but its is the best word I could come up with.)
Your appealing to emotion is a really bad debate tactic,
Human emotion is what drives people. As Ive said before, Laws are made because of "Moral, economical, political or social values" which ultimately stem from human emotion.
Yes it could have easily been me. In fact, it almost was, albeit indirectly. My mom wasn't wanted by her mom and if abortion was legal at the time she almost certainly would have been aborted, meaning I obviously wouldn't exist. But that doesn't change my opinion.
See, that baffles me.
I rather LIKE living, thank you very much. Thinking that someone could have denied me that just seems wrong.
If I didn't exist I wouldn't know any difference. A fetus doesn't have memories or understand that it exists or doesn't exist.
True. But, its not for lack of trying. The ability to "know the difference" was taken away from them.
You know who does understand that?
Its not a lack of understanding, its a lack of agreeing.
A woman who is alive right now and having to go through a traumatic pregnancy that she doesn't want. Why should she have to suffer for the sake of something that doesn't even know whether it exists or not yet?
Key word:
YET
But, that's because I don't get my emotions mixed in to these sorts of things.
As I said before, emotions are what drive human nature. They let us know what we would want other people to do to us, and that should tell us things about what we do to them.
Because technically, abortion is not killing. As I pointed out to you, but you refuse to acknowledge.
What you proved was that it was not an "entity." And the definition of "alive" Is basically "Not dead." And no the fetus is not dead until YOU make it that way.
of a person, animal, or plant) living, not dead.
Because technically, abortion is not
killing. As I pointed out to you, but you refuse to acknowledge.
The point in this is, stop using emotions to back your "
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