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Originally Posted by rivrrat  How is having an abortion NOT being responsible? That makes no sense to me.
That's like saying, "Well there are consequences to your actions. So if you have sex and get syphlis, then you should be responsible and keep the disease. If you get rid of the disease, you're being irresponsible and running away from the consequeces of your actions." 
Do we even have to go into women who are forced to have sex against their will? Are they shirking responsibility too for being so bold as to have an actual working vagina? |
It's all dependent on point of view. If you really do view the unborn child as human life with the right to life, then abortion is not the responsible thing to do as you have destroyed an innocent. There are circumstances in which women are forced to have sex, in which they didn't make the choice themselves. There are certainly extenuating circumstances, though I think for the most part what is being talked about is when the sex is consensual. Where both parties made the choice to engage in it. Pregnancy is definitely a possible consequence of sex. And you can take steps to dramatically decrease that probability, but the probability always exists. Should a child be punished via death for choices not made by it? I'm not sure the answer to that is yes. But I am of the personal opinion that if at all possible, we should avoid killing other humans.