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[QUOTE="darkmoney52"]Can you define the grey area at all? Or even how it would effect the morality of the issue? If the first baby didn't qualify as a person why would the other 14?MrGeezer
Yes I can. Surely not with criteria absolute enough to please everybody but its not that impossible.Also as for morality, I dont think that at any case the moral weigh of abortion is ever lifted. Its always immoral. I always describe abortion as a necessary evil. Now maybe for some people the necessity makes it not immoral. Anyway I wouldnt say that abortion is something I like or that I am perfectly ok with. I dont think any pro-choice person likes abortion. If someone wants people to not have abortion they should make sure the alternatives are easily accessible.
I never use the argument of whether or not a foetus is considered a person. So thats not the case here.
Straightforward question for you. What makes abortion immoral?
Well although I dont have a clear idea as to what I believe a foetus is (whether it is considered a person or not), but crudely put abortion is a type of murder.But there are 2 choices.
1) Allow the woman to have an abortion (in cases of rape, condom breaking, really young age, really bad financial situation and so on)
2) Have the baby be born and have it be raised in an environment where there is risk it wont be wanted (which could lead from negligence to abusive behavior towards the child), it wont be provided with the very basics, or even not surviving.
Now yeah I know the above doesnt justify it at any case, but really I wish we could do anything to prevent abortions from happening.
I wish the alternatives to abortion were as easily accessible as they can be, that people were educated better and acter responsibly.
But until the above happens what would you have a possible mother do?
To the above I get the responses like "she shouldnt get pregnant in the first place", "alternatives are available", "alternatives are easily accessible" etc.
The first doesnt really say anything because like I said I wish people acted more maturely and that education took care of that as much as possible. But until you fix that what can you do?
The second is obvious but are they accessibly by EVERY possible mother?
And then I get the third response. Is there a country where thats true beyond doubt? Excellent. As soon as a country can claim and prove that it provides alternatives to abortion that completely accessible by mothers then by all means make abortion illegal.
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