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Originally Posted by GGG
Can I just point out the irony that while you discount eating meat on the basis of feeling pain yet you are okay with abortion where the latest science puts the ability of the fetus to feel pain at between 8 weeks and 14 weeks.
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Heh. In these "discussions" people like to try to point out hypocrisy so they can feel superior. Even when they don't know me or my beliefs. I said I disagree that abortion is murder. I am most certainly against abortion after 14 weeks. Personally, I would hope that if I got a woman pregnant, even if by accident (broken condom, etc) that she wouldn't even take the day after pill. However, like I said in my previous post, I'm to the point where I don't like pushing my own personal beliefs onto other people.
Now, the other issue on abortion is how you combat it. Most anti-abortion activists want the procedure banned, which just moves it black market back rooms. I think a more appropriate means of reducing the number of abortions is sexual education in school, something most of the people with the protest signs outside the clinics are against are against.
To complete the parallel, I put the people with the anti-abortion protests in with the over-the-top PETA protests. They only serve to entrench the opposing view and turn off the moderates.