Would you murder an innocent child with your bare hands to cure cancer?

[Newme]

99.31% of Abortions Done for Convenience

The convenience of not burdening the world with an unwanted child, in the context of a world with 8,000,000,000 humans in it. And maybe it's also avoiding the birth of a child whose parents cannot afford to care properly for it. Convenient, indeed.

Sick to support genocide based on age discrimination, especially when you were allowed to live past that age.

[Newme]

It’s amazing what mental gymnastics some will go through to justify ripping a child (developing human) apart, limb by limb and killing him or her. If you had to do it yourself, would you? Would you then be so supportive of KILLING CHILDREN?

[Newme]

2 reasons to oppose abortion murders:
1. It’s immoral to kill a child, especially in such painful torture
2. It hurts women

Utah was one of the first states to acknowledge this & require pain medication to be administered to older children, though doctors recommended it be given to you get children too - before killing them.

[Pattern-chaser]

Sick to support genocide based on age discrimination, especially when you were allowed to live past that age.

Genocide is an attempt to erase a species. With 8 billion of us, this hardly seems like a real risk.

[LuckyR]

Sick to support genocide based on age discrimination, especially when you were allowed to live past that age.

Genocide is an attempt to erase a species. With 8 billion of us, this hardly seems like a real risk.

Yet another "opinion" on abortion (an issue of two competing interests) that conveniently ignores the one that contradicts their pet side of the topic. Makes for okay political mudslinging but very uncompelling philosophical discussion.

[Pattern-chaser]

Sick to support genocide based on age discrimination, especially when you were allowed to live past that age.

Genocide is an attempt to erase a species. With 8 billion of us, this hardly seems like a real risk.

Yet another "opinion" on abortion (an issue of two competing interests) that conveniently ignores the one that contradicts their pet side of the topic. Makes for okay political mudslinging but very uncompelling philosophical discussion.

Thanks, Lucky. Insightful comments, as ever.

For myself, I strive to face my own opinions, and their ramifications and consequences, head-on. That I sometimes fail in this is merely a reflection of my real-life imperfection. But I do my best.

I don't see this as "an issue of two competing interests". I think it's more than that, and I think there are many more than two positions that one might occupy. It is a difficult and sensitive discussion to have, in which people hold deeply-entrenched ideas and beliefs, and they hold them just as sincerely and confidently as I hold my own (opinions). To achieve anything at all when discussing abortion, we have to acknowledge other people's opinions and genuine feelings, that are as deeply-held as our own.

I think throwing-in a charge of "genocide" is unnecessarily provocative; others may see it differently.

[Elindeque1992]

I would not. Once you cross that bridge, what else would you be willing to do to get what you want? What is to stop me from doing more despicable things?

[LuckyR]

I would not. Once you cross that bridge, what else would you be willing to do to get what you want? What is to stop me from doing more despicable things?

What would stop you? The same thing that stops you right now having NOT killed a baby with your bare hands, namely a combination of your personal moral code and your fear of consequences from the community.