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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
I think my opinion can be summed up fairly succinctly thus:
It's undeniably inconvenient that pregnancy is a potential consequence of sexual intercourse. People want to have sex. They don't necessarily want to have children. The (last resort) solution is to kill their unborn child in the womb.
That's the basics of it, morality completely removed. The semantics used to make it more palatable exist for that reason alone: to make the process clinical and provide emotional distance. "Abort" instead of "kill", "fetus" instead of "unborn child" etc. All in all, I find that people are just keen to justify sit as 100% clinical and remove the moral question.
People don't want to call it what it should be, even for those who support it: a necessary and unfortunate evil. The rhetoric that surrounds it is purely to protect the emotional well-being of the person having it done, because the reality is hard to deal with. When you have an abortion, you end a human life. There is no logical argument to the contrary. It is human, it is alive. Some people might be able to justify that - fine - but I can't accept them justifying it by attempting to change the facts.
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People may not want to call it that out loud but having known women who have had abortions (and I'm sure many people in this thread do too), the emotional turmoil they go through is proof enough that they know exactly what it is. Abortion is a euphemism, foetus is a euphemism, but you can't take the edge off of what you've done to your body and the thing that was growing inside it. If an unwanted pregnancy occurs once, that's unfortunate and I feel sorry for anyone who has been in that position. But I know girls who've had abortions, plural. I think that's irresponsible and I would have thought that the emotional trauma of what happened the first time would make you more responsible, but for some, apparently not.
Part of what makes us human is our personality, our appearance, our voice, our mannerisms, our friends, our jobs, our relationships... an unborn foetus (or unborn child, if you prefer) does not have any of those things yet. It is a blank canvas. A murderer on death row, on the other hand, has all of those attributes. That is a life. They are not a blank canvas. For me, that's where the difference lies.