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Last time you said something I said was "ridiculous" and "horror tactics" I posted an article that shows it actually happens. You gotta admit that excerpt sounds like it's fresh from a science fiction horror book about a future totalitarian society like 1984 and yet it's happening today. I cooked your humble pie, Zippy, and I'm waiting for you to eat it.
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Abortion is never gonna be made illegal. Never. You would be much better served just fighting to get the time limit reduced. But no, thats not good enough is it? You'd rather take a more extreme standpoint and parade yourself as some kind of warrior for all lifeforms. But then you seem quite hateful towards women who choose abortion. Hmm. |
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The way you talk about women in general betrays your total lack of respect for them and I, for one, am not any sexist pig's "honey", especially one who is still wet behind the ears and hasn't a clue what he's talking about.
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I wouldn't argue for a time limit reduction because, like I said, I won't play God. Would it be better for the time limit to be reduced? Sure, but that ignores the principle of the matter. You'll call my position extreme but I call it consistent and not contradictory. Most people on abortion have contradictory positions, yourself included. For example, in some US states you'll find someone could be charged with two murders if they murder a pregnant woman and yet that same woman could have legally terminated her own baby on the same day according to state law. I think there are really only two positions you can hold on abortion that are truely consistent and not contradictory: those who think life begins at conception and, as such, abortion should be illegal and those who believe the baby can be aborted a minute before it's delivered because it's the woman's body. Both positions are the only truely principled positions a person could have on this issue even though I find the principles of the latter horrific. Probably my personal favorite politician of all time, Doctor Ron Paul, wrote a book on his positions and his opinion on abortion was forged early in his life when he inadvertently walked in on an abortion. He saw a baby that was removed and was still alive and crying while everyone in the room acted like they didn't hear it as it slowly died. Someone said earlier that they agree with the US Supreme Court's decision that life only begins when the baby could theoretically live outside the womb. I would like nothing better than for this person and others who share this person's opinion to witness an abortion of a baby that is not developed enough to live outside the womb, but is developed enough to cry for its mother. Would you just sit there and act like nothing was wrong as it cried and slowly died? |
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It'd be interesting to see if your own convictions would hold up if you were faced with the choice. |
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And I actually am very much in favor of people's bodily freedom, men and women. I'm very Libertarian, hence the name. I think on all body issues, save this one, I'd probably fall into the bodily freedom camp. I think illegal drugs should be made legal. Heck, I think women should be allowed to walk around topless if they want to. But this is the one exception I make because it potentially involves someone else's life. |
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I understand where you're coming from but I cant agree with it either. Last edited by Tom4784; 23-03-2011 at 12:54 AM. |
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preventing unwanted babies is what the world should focus on
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After all most of those devices work by making the womb an inhospitable place to the fertilised egg and preventing it from implanting itself into the lining of the womb. That means in your argument that the new life has already begun and the contraceptive pill etc. simply carries out a very early abortion. The only contraceptives that you would then advocate would be ones that prevent fertilisation, condom, femidom, diaphragm, spermicides and the few pills that either prevent the egg from being released or destroy sperm en route to the unfertilised egg? That's quite inconvenient for pro lifers who use the pill, isnt it? Last edited by Shasown; 23-03-2011 at 03:47 PM. |
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Abortion without proper medical justification is simply cold blooded murder on a par with the mentality of Hitlers Germany wanting to slaughter en mass......
All abortionists should be tried for murder and recieve the same fate as the victims. We won the war but adopted Hitlers mentality......Modern polititions and supporters of cold blooded slaughter should hang their heads in shame...... |
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And the award for todays first Godwin goes to... :-
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Melodramatic? Much. Sensationalist? Absolutely. Factually accurate? Not at all. Highly opinionated and judgmental? Obviously. Fortunately, the fire and brimstone pro-lifers make themselves a laughing stock with these sorts of ridiculously, over the top, personal belief driven, bigoted statements.
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I disagree with abortion, but wouldn't judge anybody who had resorted to such an act if they had very good reason.
I do however think that being able to abort ababy at 24 weeks (or whatever it is) is awful and think the limit should be reduced significantly!
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Absolutely! The upper limit should be reduced down to around 16 weeks ideally, but anything over 20 weeks is really not on, considering that by that time a woman has had ample time to make an informed decision. As I've said before, I would NEVER ever have considered an abortion for myself, whatever the circumstances, but I would not presume to inflict my beliefs and opinions on other women, whose lives and circumstances I know nothing about.
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And frankly I do think it is rather arrogant (and, again, playing god) when people pick and choose an arbitrary time when the right to life of the baby outweights the bodily rights of the woman (in your case, 16 weeks). As a mathematician interested in political issues, I spend a lot of time thinking about the small details of this issue and others. I do not believe I or anyone else has the right (or knowledge) to declare the moment when a clump of cells becomes a life, so I refuse to do it and I think everyone else should. People here are telling me that abortion is not a black and white issue but I actually agree. The grey area is whether it is a human with a right to life or whether it is not. If it is not a life, the worst thing that will happen is the woman will lose 9 months of bodily freedom but she can adopt it immediately after. But if it is a life, it is murder of the innocent. So, which one is worse: the loss of 9 months of bodily freedom by a woman who knew exactly what may happen when she slept with that guy or the murder of the innocent? If there is any doubt, whatsoever, whether it is a life or not any civilized person ought to give the benefit of the doubt and assume that it is life. And so the "upper limit" ought to be 0 in any civilized country. Last edited by Liberty4eva; 24-03-2011 at 11:37 PM. |
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![]() 5 Kings: 1 throne Last edited by Angus; 25-03-2011 at 06:47 AM. |
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I don't believe in your God my dear so I have not been brainwashed by the bible bashing, fire and brimstone brigade. You don't seem to see how rigidly bigoted and judgmental you are. Thankfully, you and those who think like you will never be able to impose your draconian views about abortion onto free women - we've moved on considerably since the Middle Ages. As regards an upper limit - it is unrealistic and ridiculous to suggest there should not be a legally agreed one, and MY opinion is that, in an ideal world, it would be no more than 16 weeks. However, I can go along with a limit of 20 weeks, any later than that and a baby is potentially viable outside the womb. I do believe that that gives women more than enough time to make such a life changing and difficult decision. You seem to believe such decisions are easily arrived at when in fact they are the result of much heart searching and heartache, based on all sorts of circumstances and often good reasons. So who the hell are YOU to decide for strangers whose lives you know nothing about? Now THAT is arrogance on a breathtaking scale. You might well be a mathematician, but women are human beings, not statistics. And once again, not all bloody women are dirty little sluts who go around shagging anything in sight with no thought for the consequences - much as you might like to believe that, being the misogynist your posts reveal you to be.
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I'll take being called a "misogynist" by someone like you as a compliment. |
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Niamh | Hands off my Brick!
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