How pro-choice are we?

Discussion in 'Abortion' started by bclark, Jul 1, 2012.

  1. sec

    sec Well-Known Member

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    soooooooooo, instead of being responsible and taking pecautions you want to justify the snuffing out of an innocent life; got it.
     
  2. alexa

    alexa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You clearly did not read what I provided. Abortion will happen whether it is legal or not. It always has happened and it always will happen. I have never had an abortion and personally do not think I could but I also have not been in the position where I felt I had to.

    The facts are, the truth is, that criminalising abortion would not end abortion. Abortion did not start when abortion became legal. I knew 3 young women who had had one before it became legal. The whole point of legalising abortion is for medical safety as the link I gave said. That is what I said. It will always be there because for some women having a baby at a particular time is more than they can bare. Live with it. That is reality. Not everyone is perfect. Life is not perfect.

    I find people's attitude to women that they would like them to endure death and life enduring and threatening illnesses because they cannot bare to carry a baby at a particular time, obscene.
     
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    Checkm8r New Member

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    Eugenics are pretty much the only thing that will 'save' this country.

    Sad, but true.

    People who are too stupid to wear condoms should be sterilized.
     
  4. alexa

    alexa Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    interesting. You are comparing the mindset of anti abortionists to Nazi Germany.
     
  5. Kranes56

    Kranes56 Banned

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    Show me, where it fits the defention of genocide.
     
  6. bclark

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    Without any women, how are the Chinese going to carry on as a race?
     
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    Nah I think we should have mandated sterilisation with reversal only when you can prove that you would be an adequate parent
     
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    Who has been defending what's going on in China? State sanctioned forced abortions have been roundly condemned - it's probably the one thing on this thread everyone can agree on.
     
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    whores that abort their children also need to be fixed so they can NEVER reproduce.
     
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    That's not another person. That's a fetus. It will become a person when it's born. Until that time, to put it bluntly, it is it's mother's property. That fetus's existence is inexplicably tied to it's mother, and other than the contribution by the father during intercourse, a burden born entirely by the mother. I've always felt that should give the mother the final say in what happens to her body.

    I can totally understand someone's argument against the government paying for abortions. I think it should be treated, in regards to who pays anyway, just like any other medical procedure. Sometimes that means the government will cover it, sometimes it doesn't. I don't think that anyone should have to give birth because they were prevented from having an abortion due to lack of an ability to pay for it. On the other hand, I don't believe abortions are all that expensive, at least compared to the medical costs of giving birth.

    So basically, it's not that I feel the government SHOULD pay for abortions, I just feel it's a rather dumb decision not to since the related costs of giving birth to an unwanted child that has a very good chance of ending up in a government funded system anyway are going to be much much higher. Costs wouldn't normally matter when it came to having a child, except this mother doesn't want to be giving birth in the first place, and is only doing so because she can't afford the alternative(and you can't refuse to treat a mother giving birth in the hospital as opposed to the ability to refuse an abortion due to lack of ability to pay).
     
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    Junkieturtle Well-Known Member Donor

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    Yep, this is pretty much it. I haven't seen any pro-choicers on these forums defending it Chinese policy. In fact, I've seen pro-choicers condemning it.

    This is just more strawman crap from the lifers. Pro-choice means wanting the mother to have the ability to choose. I mean, come on people, it's in the friggin name! :) That's not what is happening in China.
     
  12. sec

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    of course I read what you posted. I understand your position of trying to justify a reprehensible action.
     
  13. bclark

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    So in other words, we are going to do nothing. Everything we buy is manufactured in China, by slaves forced to live in these kind of conditions, so we all benefit from this. China finances the deficit we run, so even if we wanted to do something meaningful, we probably couldn't without collapsing our currency.
     
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    Can you give evidence about how many are forced abortions?

    Why compare it with that?

    You'd probably want to encourage free choice.

    Could you elaborate on that assertion?
     
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    You can't show where it fits, because it doesn't. Am I right?
     

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