And why do they deserve the choice?
There is no "quick fix" button in life. If you are wealthy and never lock your doors, you're going to be robbed. If you piss the wrong person off, you're going to get stabbed. If you have sex without protection, you're going to get pregnant. The man that gets robbed cannot rob his neighbor to maintain his current lifestyle. He has to deal with the consequences, and next time be more cautious. Killing a human life is NOT an answer to what could have been easily prevented with condoms, birth control, or simply not having sex (GASP).
This makes quite a bit of sense, but I ask you this: just because your house was robbed, or you were stabbed, does that make everything right because you did something to make yourself vulnerable to it? Even if the result of your mistake is devastating (potentially fatal, as well), does that mean the result should be left as it is?
No, even if the parents are at fault, something should be done afterward to help the parents, help them recover like they would from a robbery, stabbing, etc. Of course, killing a human life is not a solution, which means that other solutions should be offered.
Which you did beautifully, in this paragraph:
If the parents do not want the child, they do not have sex, or they load on the protection. The "reversal" murders the baby. There is no possible reason to justify the murder of an innocent child other than to make your life easier.
Life isn't fair. People get raped, and people get robbed. People lose their jobs, lose their families, lose their friends, and lose their lives. There is no "quick fix" for any of these, but for some reason the human race has decided that the murdering of a baby is a reasonable answer to an accidental pregnancy, when the real answer is to just not have sex unless you are ready for a child. People should think less about sex and more about finances until they can support a family. This may come as a surprise, but people don't get pregnant unless they have sex. No sex = No baby. Do the math.
Yes, it would be ideal if everyone knew this, and lived by it. However, while people may realize that No sex = No baby, there are any number of situations (condom breaking, rape, etc.) where the No sex side of the equation is negated and No baby has the potential to reserve as well.
So instead of suffering for nine months, then having a new life, the simple solution is to murder the child? I suppose people with this belief would also agree to murdering elderly people who live in nursing homes and hospitals; who's only contribution to society is a burden due to their constant needs for health care and the inability to pay for it. Wouldn't the easy solution just be to stick the needle in anybody that can't take care of themselves? If you say no, then why say yes to children?
I in no way condone the murder of born people, and it is not accurate to assume that anyone with my opinion condones it either. I see an unborn child as being in a different class from a born child, because an unborn child is part of the mother while a born child is part of society. While you could say that the relationship of fetus-to-mother is similar to seniors-to-society, this is not exactly a correct comparison, because a fetus has no experience in the world, while a senior (or any born person for that matter) has some. Seniors in homes should not be murdered because they are a part of society, and murder is a crime because it harms human society, in general the stable relationships between human beings which let them continue to exist in this world. You may say that a fetus has the
potential to have experiences which impact society, but if a fetus is killed before it leaves the womb, tell me exactly what is lost by society.
"Abortion shouldn't be banned, because before the child comes into this world, the parents may decide they want to murder it, and that is their choice."
Abortion is the murder of infants. If you don't condemn it, you condone it.
Sure, I condone throwing a baby into a river...
Of course I do
not condone child homicide just because I believe that abortion should not be banned. Why? I see a difference between a fetus and a child, explained above in my paragraph about what constitutes society.
As can leaving your house unlocked, pissing off the wrong person, and driving drunk. There's no quick fix in life without harming somebody else. Guess who abortion harms.
If you said that "Guess who abortion harms" line to my mother, or anyone else who has had it or seen someone had it, then you would not be likely to get "the unborn child" as a response. It is a trying, painful experience, but does my mother regret it? To an extent. She regrets getting pregnant at such a level of health which
forced her to get an abortion because otherwise she would have had a potentially fatal miscarriage. When a woman uses protection but through bad luck it breaks, is twenty years old, has a twenty-year-husband, is romantic by nature and is sick enough that a miscarriage would kill her, does she deserve to face the chance of death just to bring in a child who would likely have died anyway due to the miscarriage?
If you want to have sex without the burdens of a child, you use protection.
Let's do some basic math.
PENIS + VAGINA = CHILD.
(PENIS + CONDOM) + (VAGINA + BIRTH CONTROL) = NO CHILD.
There is a risk in everything. If you like to race cars, there's a chance you might crash. If you like to play football, there's a chance you may seriously break yourself. If you like to have sex, there's a chance you'll have a baby. Only an idiot would go into any of these situations without taking the proper measures to protect themselves.
It is just like the students who look at the equations, and then get something completely foreign on the exam, when a man busts through a window and rapes a woman, or a condom breaks. Just like that, alright.
Protection is not a fail-safe method. See the case of my mother, only alive today because she had an abortion, decided once out of four times to try something which while not appealing is sometimes a method which I think is the only sensible option in certain circumstances.
