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Are you pro life or pro choice

Are you pro life or pro choice


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And there there those that want absolutely no human rights for the unborn who will allow for partial birth abortions. If it's about reproductive rights why can't men abort their right to fatherhood? You have the choice to use contraception and birth control, and you chose to have sex (which obviously may result in pregnancy). Reproductive "rights" end at conception when another life has been created by your choices and decision to engage in intercourse.

Good question. I think they should be able to.

It is not any more right to force a man into personal or financial servitude than it is to force a woman to be fed off of by an unwelcome invader. Especially since women have the unilateral right to decide what to do with a pregnancy (as well she should, since it's happening to her body and hers alone). If the man gets no say in that decision, he should be allowed a say in how he reacts to it. If women have the unilateral right, they also have the unilateral responsibility to arrange for how they are going to execute their decision, either to abort or give birth. This includes establishing whether the man is willing to be involved, if she wants him to be.

On a more general note, reproductive rights do not end for so long as reproduction is in progress.

You aren't choosing to acknowledge birth control, etc, as a right. You are acknowledging it as something you're comfortable with. But once you stop liking it, you don't think people should be allowed to do it. People who are anti-abortion cannot possibly support reproductive rights, because their reasoning for supporting SOME reproductive rights has nothing to do with them being rights. You do not see them as rights. You seem them as things you have the ability to take away. It has solely to do with your comfort. Wanting to ban some rights that apply during the process of reproduction means you don't support reproductive rights.

You support instituting rights for ZEF's, which is a complete departure from what we normally consider the criteria for something having rights. You cannot possibly support reproductive rights, or women's rights, at the same time because you are subordinating the woman as losing her rights and her personhood to the ZEF.

You support preemptive birth control. You do not support reproductive rights, because you do not support women's right to make choices about reproduction, during reproduction.
 
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To you 28 people who have no problem with abortion, what if it was you in the womb ready to be born and the woman carrying you had a bad hair day or for any other reason decided to abort you.... I wonder if you might change your mind.............
 
To you 28 people who have no problem with abortion, what if it was you in the womb ready to be born and the woman carrying you had a bad hair day or for any other reason decided to abort you.... I wonder if you might change your mind.............

Then I wouldn't be alive to worry about it, would I?
 
Going to make you make a choice, and if Roe V Wade was overturned?

Pro-choice. Although I believe a fetus is a human baby, that is a matter of personal belief, and I don't believe morality can be legislated.
 
Then I wouldn't be alive to worry about it, would I?


well there are MRIs that show when a butcher doctor is trying to perform and abortion the fetus in the womb actually trys to get away from the probe and the prongs that are trying to crush its head.........God that is so revulsive to me I can hardly type it with a dry eye.......
 
well there are MRIs that show when a butcher doctor is trying to perform and abortion the fetus in the womb actually trys to get away from the probe and the prongs that are trying to crush its head.........God that is so revulsive to me I can hardly type it with a dry eye.......


..... Hahahaha ' did you read this in one of those chain mails you like to post so often?
 
Pro-choice. Although I believe a fetus is a human baby, that is a matter of personal belief, and I don't believe morality can be legislated.

So you have no compassion for the innocent, defenseless baby in the womb....54,000,000 abortions since 1973...Morality was legislated by a very liberal SCOTUS and Roe V Wade........
 
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So you have no compassion for the innocent, defenseless baby in the womb....54,000,000 abortions since 1973...Morality was legislated by a very liberal SCOTUS and Roe V wade........

Yes, I do have compassion. That being said, I'm not the one killing them, and I don't take on the guilt of those who do.
 
..... Hahahaha ' did you read this in one of those chain mails you like to post so often?

There are actual videos of that happening on the net and they have been posted here in DP many times and you know it...............
 
Yes, I do have compassion. That being said, I'm not the one killing them, and I don't take on the guilt of those who do.

Yes but you can help stop it.......The tide is turning on this issue..........It use to be this country was heavily pro choice now its about 50-50 with even a little lean pro life......
 
There are actual videos of that happening on the net and they have been posted here in DP many times and you know it...............

Where? Show us a link to this video. ****, Ill call you out on it. Send me a LINK privately of these videos. Actually, Im willing to bet diamonds to dollars you just made that **** up.
 
To you 28 people who have no problem with abortion, what if it was you in the womb ready to be born and the woman carrying you had a bad hair day or for any other reason decided to abort you.... I wonder if you might change your mind.............

Um... why would I care? If I never existed I can't care that I don't exist.

I don't know what sort of propaganda you've been watching, but at the time when most women have elective abortions the ZEF doesn't even have a nervous system. It couldn't move even if it tried. It couldn't even be aware of anything happening to it.
 
Yes but you can help stop it.......The tide is turning on this issue..........It use to be this country was heavily pro choice now its about 50-50 with even a little lean pro life......

I'm not taking on someone else's cause, and I don't fall prey to emotional manipulation easily. There are plenty of "bad" things people do, and I'm not here as an arbiter of right and wrong. We live in a society in which abortion has been deemed legal by the highest legal authority. I live in that society with a clear conscience, not because I follow the laws, but because I live up to a moral code. The laws are what they are, regardless of my feelings about any given issue.
 
well there are MRIs that show when a butcher doctor is trying to perform and abortion the fetus in the womb actually trys to get away from the probe and the prongs that are trying to crush its head.........God that is so revulsive to me I can hardly type it with a dry eye.......

I'm sure a cow does the same thing, doesn't stop you from eating hamburgers. :roll:
 
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I'm not taking on someone else's cause, and I don't fall prey to emotional manipulation easily. There are plenty of "bad" things people do, and I'm not here as an arbiter of right and wrong. We live in a society in which abortion has been deemed legal by the highest legal authority. I live in that society with a clear conscience, not because I follow the laws, but because I live up to a moral code. The laws are what they are, regardless of my feelings about any given issue.

Come on Lizzie 54,000,000 abortions...I can't even fathom the number....Its like the total population of LA and NY combined.......
 
Here you go, watch the video....I know it makes you sleep better at night to tell yourself the baby is nothing but as usual you are wrong:

Watched the video. I admit I skipped through the first couple parts - I know how pregnancy and abortion work already, thanks. So, I got to the abortion part.

Wasn't terribly bothered by it because if you watch, the fetus is actually not moving. The uterus is moving. Although I did notice there was something strange about the timing. Going to your second link answered why that was.

The Wiki link YOU provided:

Many members of the medical community were critical of the film, describing it as misleading and deceptive. Richard Berkowitz, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, described the film as "factually misleading and unfair".

John Hobbins of the Yale School of Medicine called the film's use of special effects deceptive, a form of "technical flimflam." He pointed out that the film of the ultrasound is initially run at slow speed, but that it is sped up when surgical instruments are introduced to give the impression that "the fetus is thrashing about in alarm.

Fetal development experts argued that, contrary to Nathanson's assertion in the film, a fetus cannot perceive danger or make purposeful movements. David Bodian, a neurobiologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, stated that doctors had no evidence that a twelve-week-old fetus could feel pain, but noted the possibility of a reflex movement by a fetus in response to external stimuli such as surgical instruments.

The size of the ultrasound image and of the fetus model used was also misleading, appearing to show a fetus the size of a full-term baby, while in actuality a twelve-week-old fetus is under two inches long.

The images at the end of the video are also misleading. Those fetuses were not the result of abortion. They were probably the result of stillbirth. The reason being, a fetus that size would never be removed whole like that. As a matter of fact, a fetus that size would almost never be aborted at all, except in cases of fetal demise or imminent danger to the woman. A couple of them do look notably deformed, although again, they were probably stillbirthed, not aborted.

So basically, this entire video is a piece of propoganda from top to bottom, using deceptive film tricks and dishonest photographs, just as I thought.
 
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Watched the video. I admit I skipped through the first couple parts - I know how pregnancy and abortion work already, thanks. So, I got to the abortion part.

Wasn't terribly bothered by it because if you watch, the fetus is actually not moving. The uterus is moving. Although I did notice there was something strange about the timing. Going to your second link answered why that was.

The Wiki link YOU provided:









The images at the end of the video are also misleading. Those fetuses were not the result of abortion. They were probably the result of stillbirth. The reason being, a fetus that size would never be removed whole like that. As a matter of fact, a fetus that size would almost never be aborted at all, except in cases of fetal demise or imminent danger to the woman. A couple of them do look notably deformed, although again, they were probably stillbirthed, not aborted.

So basically, this entire video is a piece of propoganda from top to bottom, using deceptive film tricks and dishonest photographs, just as I thought.

you must need new glasses if you did not see the baby trying to avoid the prod in that video..........Take off your bias blinders my far left wing friend..........
 
you must need new glasses if you did not see the baby trying to avoid the prod in that video..........Take off your bias blinders my far left wing friend..........

No, I watched it a couple times over. It isn't moving. The entire abdomen is moving, and the fetus is staying in precisely the same spot relative to the rest of the body.

The only time it "moves" is as it's being removed, in which case it is not moving under its own power. Its position is being changed by an outside force.

Are you going to address the quotes I pulled from your own link, which state that this video is the result of deceptive film editing and flat-out lying?
 
Just bringing up the point that its stupid to legalize something or to keep something illegal just because it being illegal might result in the loss of more lives.
It's even more stupid to try and equate babies to hardened criminals.... just saying.
 
It's even more stupid to try and equate babies to hardened criminals.... just saying.

Think you may have the analogy crossed there, but to be fair to you, james wasn't entirely clear. I got what he was saying or trying to say.

Here's the crux: we don't legalize bank robbery just because bank robbers might get shot and killed in the act of bank robbery. In fact, we don't really mind when they do.
 
Pro-choice. Although I believe a fetus is a human baby, that is a matter of personal belief, and I don't believe morality can be legislated.

Side-note: Technically, a human fetus isn't a human baby, though some non-technical, non-scientific definitions of "baby" do include the fetal stage of life. These are all just terms for stages of life, of course, like toddler or teenager or what have you; but you wouldn't call a toddler a teenager. :) One contiguous organism from beginning to end. Anyway.




But just to look at what you said with some scrutiny, I don't understand how you could turn around and be "pro-choice."

If you "believe" that we are living human beings in the womb, then I have to tell you that it really isn't a question of belief, let alone "personal" ones. That our lifespan begins at conception and that we are human beings from the beginning of that lifespan until its end... both are established scientific fact.

The sentiments are not mere personal beliefs, they are reality. The only people who object to imposing reality are the disoriented and deluded, and well, they usually need you to do it.



As far as "legislating morality," I'm just going to take a moment and guess that you want a government and a rule of law that prevents and punishes theft, kidnapping... homicide.

Now, assuming you want the homicide of a human in the adult stage of life to be prosecuted, how is that not "legislating morality," if prosecuting the homicide of a human in the fetal stage of life is?


I see no reason to consider one any more moralizing than the other, which is to say that I see neither as moralizing. Both are simply government fulfilling its most basic, most essential role, to uphold the human rights of its citizens.
 
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