The thing is if you punched a woman in the stomach at 23 weeks and killed her child what would the charge be?
Kids shouldn't be brought into this world if the parents aren't ready for it. Maybe they should take precautions, but in the end it doesn't always happen. It's not fair on the kid to be forced to exist just because their parents ****ed up before they were even born.
I'm for the opposite, forced abortions unless you can prove that you can provide/care for your kid, it would also put Jeremy Kyle out of business, everyone wins![]()
If a woman leads herself into pregnancy in a normal fashion then the very last option available should be to scoop that baby out of there with a hook - yet now it's being promoted as a perfectly acceptable guilt free option.
I am an atheist, I was a teenage parent and I have a disabled child - and none of these reasons were good enough to abort the thing I consensually created while the mother's health was never in doubt.
Irrelevant. There's no parallel to be made between A) the owner and creator of a baby having it evacuated from her own body and B) an alien being deiberately assaulting a pregnant woman in order to kill a wanted child. Separate things completely.
Frankly, if a woman is pregnant by mistake and feels she doesn't want to carry the baby or have the path of her whole life altered then it is absolutely **** all to do with anyone else.
If its murder its murder either way
I've already explained why one of them isn't murder and the other is. If the woman asked for someone to hit her till the baby died, I wouldn't consider that murder. But if it was unconsenting, it would be violent force and therefore a taking of a wanted life. I.e. murder.
Short, to the point and I absolutely agree.
Even the father shouldn't have a say...
Him: "But I really want this baby"
Her: "You carry it then"
Him: "I can't"
Her: "**** off then"
stopmeandslapme:1779410 said:Personally I think abortion is murder, and is only acceptable in the rape cases. Even then it should only be before 13 weeks. And I'm not religious at all.
Nice to know the new sheriff is open-minded.
Even if it was consenting it would be murder, as are illegal abortions
The point is not the manner of getting rid, its about deciding when the foetus is considered to be a life
I am with most things. And it's not like I preach about abortion if I'm not asked. I was talking to a bloke the other day whose bird has had 4 abortions in the last 5 years, and I didn't say a word.
A girl in my work was telling me the other day how her friend is 20 odd weeks pregnant but just found that the baby has severe heart problems. If the baby survives they said it could either die very earlier or be seriously ill for the rest of its life.
She has to make the decision soon but I think I would opt for the abortion if it was my woman going through it.
A girl in my work was telling me the other day how her friend is 20 odd weeks pregnant but just found that the baby has severe heart problems. If the baby survives they said it could either die very earlier or be seriously ill for the rest of its life.
She has to make the decision soon but I think I would opt for the abortion if it was my woman going through it.
I'm not talking about what is the law, I'm talking about what should be considered ethically correct. The law can go **** itself.
As long as it's a parasite inside the mother, it's her body and her choice. No-one else owns her or can tell her what she does with a being that's within her and dependent on her bodily resources. If she wants that being ended, whether alive or dead, whether a good thing or a bad thing, she should be able to do that.
Steven Levitt in the popular book 'Freakonomics' put the argument across that there was a correlation between a drop in the United States crime rate and the introduction of abortion in the 1970's. Apparently giving the lower class the ability to remove unborn babies has in a eugenical sort of way meant that they were not free to reproduce their own delinquency.
This brings up a huge moral question - because something gives practical benefits does it make it morally correct,
because a teenage mother is going to bring up a bit of a delinquent child does it make it morally correct to terminate the child before it's had a chance to rob my house?
because a child is going to be born with deformities does it make it right not to give the child a less happy and more challenging deformed life?
because a parent isn't ready to give up their normal lives, does it make it right to remove the child from a womb?
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I don't pretend to have the answer to these questions, but it's worth thinking about do some morally suspect means always justify the ends.

It's brutal Meds. Not a choice I would want to have to make. Do you think my Bro who is deaf and dumb should have been aborted? He is life and soul now.