And before I get jumped, I will reiterate, I am pro-life for my life, but pro-choice for the world. This will seem like sitting on the fence, but I will explain it as this.
I do believe, the fetus (at a certain age, not necessarily at conception) is a life, therefore should have some rights.
In that situation, if I was preg (which could not happen) or if I got a girl preg (which is obviously possible) I would do what I could to see it come to term and love it and support it.
I would offer to take the child, even if the mother wanted nothing to do with it. If she still wanted to abort, I would step away, she has more say than I do. But she's obviously not a person I would want to be around anymore.
I do believe that one life inside another has to split rights and so, it not being my body, I don't have a lot to say. Like with the law, if one's life infringes on another's life, then there is a conflict.
Morally, I think a lot of people of people use abortion for the wrong reasons, i.e. as a form of birth control, and that is wrong.
However, I do believe there are time when it is right. Like rape, incest, health problems, etc. You can't just trade one life for another because it's 'innocent'.
As well, I do think it is a socially needed thing. There are a ton of unwanted babies, do we really need to add more? Sometimes parents are just screw ups, and nothing is going to change that. You wanna screw up that kids life as well?
In a perfect world, abortion is a hateful thing. But this is hardly a perfect world. I will do what I can, to fix it. By not having unprepared babies, and if I do, by taking care of them.
But I can't fix all the side issues of rape, neglect, abuse, and unwanted babies. And changing the rule, to make abortion illegal, isn't going to make it better, it's going to make it worse.
To make the world better, we only have to live our values, and try to teach them. But we don't ever force them. To each their own, harm none. But we can't force others to harm none obviously. It doesn't work logistically, and it doesn't work morally.
So I live pro-life, but I vote pro-choice.
Last edited by Daradon; 05-28-2011 at 03:23 AM.
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