B.S. Lewis

The question is not whether you think abortion should remain legal, but whether you think it's morally right (i.e., something you would ever consider if you conceived a child you didn't plan on or want).

B.S. Lewis

I have another question for you all:

I felt the need to put the distinction, above, between thinking abortion is "right," and thinking abortion should be legal--because from experience I know these two opinions do not necessarily go together.

But what could be the logic behind wanting something you consider wrong to remain legal? Wrong is wrong is wrong...right?

godfree1

I think every imaginable type and kind of abortion should remain safe, legal and accessible. That said, I couldn't feel more valuable to and proud of myself than when I'm assisting with a dilation and evacuation in the operating room. Is abortion "morally right" to me? Though I'm categorically ecstatic to say that all of the machinations of human reproduction (and so any by-products of conception) will be absent from my personal, thoroughly homosexual, anti-breeding life, abortion is certainly something I would demand if I conceived a fetus that I didn't plan or want. Let's not be stupid enough to force women to return to using toilet-bowls and coat-hangers in order to perform their own abortions--because they will.

A fetus is not a child.

A woman is not an incubator.

Abortion is not murder.



Proud to be child-free,
godfree1

mga

been there myself when i was young and stupid and the girl was as well...it was the best thing for both of us and i don't regret it to this day. as far as i know, she does not either.

Splarnst

I don't have a definitive stand on abortion myself, but one possible response is that outlawing something morally wrong could lead to more harm than good. There are people who think drinking alcohol is morally wrong, but I don't know anyone who thinks we were better off in the prohibition era.

godfree1

You're definitely right about that. Usually, I'm the only person in the OR who wants to be there to perform the dilation and evacuation. I'm doing it because it's "right" (the patient wants it), and furthermore, it's part of my job. (Let's not confuse the patient with the parasite.)

If you don't like abortion, don't have one. How simple is that?

Whose wrong? Whose right?



Thank you for not breeding,
godfree1

EverLastingGodStopper

"Is abortion RIGHT?" It was right for me. After all these years, I'm still glad I had an abortion after that one-night stand, instead of an unplanned family.

I'm now a mother of two planned, wanted, prepared-for kids.

I think abortion is "right" for a lot of people, and "wrong" for other people.

Donald M

Actually, I think the real question that needs to be asked with respect to abortion (or sten cell research or human cloning for that matter) is: what does it mean to be human? How one answers taht question will go a long way to determining how one answers the other questions.

B.S. Lewis

Parasite? I don't think it will necessarily give away my position on abortion to say that you, sir, are a loon. Or maybe it's just cognitive dissonance at work...

Jennie

As an older mother, I've had two Chorionic Villi Samplings (CVS's) done to determine that my babies would be born without chromosomal abnormalities. I was lucky enough not to have to follow through on our decision to abort if such had shown up. This is just to point out that even babies that are planned may be aborted; it's not just the contraceptive failures that people need to make such choices for.