Personhood and Abortion Rights

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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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Markk wrote:Could it be you need to find fault in my belief to justify your position.


Um no that not it. You have avoided justifying your positions.

No it doesn't, the woman may choose to let her child live and she may die. How am "I" putting a higher value on it if it is a choice in that scenario?


By giving her the choice you give her the higher value knowing many of them will choose to end the pregnancy. It's the same thing with rape. You are giving the women's choice a higher value then the life of the fetus/unborn baby. You can keep denying it, but everyone knows you are trying to take two different positions here.

It is a real issue and question, which you ducked, especially for the child.


I haven't ducked anything. You claim it is an issue, but have failed to show that it is an issue. I have said to you multiple times, in this thread, I don't see it as an issue, meaning I don't think government laws are needed, and that women and medical communities are good enough to make it a non issue.

In context with this conversation, some have, like Nazi Germany.


Science in the US has been doing experiments on dead humans for centuries.

Do you believe it is okay, to take the life of a baby days before it's normal birth without complication to woman or child, and then perform medical experiments on that child, simply because it is the woman's choice? And Why? I would hope your line here is based more on just the convenience of a clear line.


Is that happening in the US? I ask that because I don't see it as something really happening. I doubt you would find any sane women who would seek and abortion under these circumstances, and medical doctors do have rules and ethics they have to follow, meaning it would be almost impossible to to get an abortion under such circumstances. Now any aborted fetus's used for scientific research would have to have to permission from the parent or parents just as they would need it for a child who dies, or an adult who has given permission before they died. I don't have a problem with science doing ethical research on dead people. They have been doing it for many centuries, although I agree that some of it, like from the Nazis has not been ethical, but there are rules in these areas today.

Do you believe that if a child was aborted a few days before it birth date, a child is being killed?


Yes a fetus/child is being killed. I wouldn't like the idea of it being a fetus being viable, but again I see it as something hardly, if ever, really happening. Responsible behavior already exists with both groups such that we don't need government laws interfering with the mothers rights and doctors who may have late term abortions for reasons such as health of the mother and fetus/child. You need to establish there is a serious problem first before reasonable discussion can happen about what kind of laws may be needed.
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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EAllusion wrote:though it rests on some shaky comparisons between the risk and inconvenience of pregnancy


Along with the highest maternal mortality rates among industrialized nations we now see a large increase in serious complications for women. And the US government hasn't even bothered for the last ten years to track how many women die in childbirth

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/57229880 ... ing-in-u-s

Leah Bahrencu's kidneys and liver shut down. Samantha Blackwell spent a month in a coma. Cindel Pena suffered heart failure. Heather Lavender lost her uterus.

Every year in the U.S., nearly 4 million women give birth, the vast majority without anything going amiss for themselves or their babies. But more than 135 expectant and new mothers a day — or roughly 50,000 a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — endure dangerous and even life-threatening complications that often leave them wounded, weakened, traumatized, financially devastated, unable to bear more children, or searching in vain for answers about what went wrong.
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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Jersey Girl wrote:Keep in mind, and I think you are old enough to recall this, that we come from a generation (or at least I do) in which a girl pregnant out of wedlock was publicly shamed, humiliated, and often times sent away to have her baby or forced to put it up for adoption by her parents or in some cases forced to undergo the shotgun wedding.


Ah the good ole days, I think a lot of folks really miss this old fashioned way of making themselves feel all self righteous and good about themselves, standing outside PP and yelling at women is such a poor substitute for rallying the community in a shaming gossip fest.
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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Cam and RI I think you're right about the parental rights. I've thought about all of the single parents I've known where the other parent relinquished their rights and except for one case, I think that there were grandparents involved somehow.

I think I'm done with this topic.
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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café crema wrote:Along with the highest maternal mortality rates among industrialized nations we now see a large increase in serious complications for women. And the US government hasn't even bothered for the last ten years to track how many women die in childbirth

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/57229880 ... ing-in-u-s

Leah Bahrencu's kidneys and liver shut down. Samantha Blackwell spent a month in a coma. Cindel Pena suffered heart failure. Heather Lavender lost her uterus.

Every year in the U.S., nearly 4 million women give birth, the vast majority without anything going amiss for themselves or their babies. But more than 135 expectant and new mothers a day — or roughly 50,000 a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — endure dangerous and even life-threatening complications that often leave them wounded, weakened, traumatized, financially devastated, unable to bear more children, or searching in vain for answers about what went wrong.

Problem:
1.25% of birth mothers endure major complications.
Solution:
Kill the baby.
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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subgenius wrote:Problem:
1.25% of birth mothers endure major complications.
Solution:
Kill the baby.


In some cases yes, and the LDS church supports it. :wink:
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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subgenius wrote:Problem:
1.25% of birth mothers endure major complications.
Solution:
Kill the baby.

Is it better to kill the mother if only one or the other can be saved? And what if neither can be saved without the abortion?

ETA: What would your own choice be if your own wife's only chance of survival were to have an abortion?
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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subgenius wrote:Problem:
1.25% of birth mothers endure major complications.
Solution:
Kill the baby.

I’m sure that you can tell me why the alternative is a morally superior choice.

Lots of space here on the Internet. Have at it.
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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My first memory of Subgenius posting on this board was him sharing fabricated and out of context quotes of Margaret Sanger to lie about her views in an effort to discredit planned parenthood and abortion.
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Re: Personhood and Abortion Rights

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EAllusion wrote:My first memory of Subgenius posting on this board was him sharing fabricated and out of context quotes of Margaret Sanger to lie about her views in an effort to discredit planned parenthood and abortion.

Don’t forget the doctored photo he posted of her supposedly preaching to klan members, lol.
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