RICKAMAVEN wrote:borndead1
let me think about what you said.
20 weeks is a good compromize.
so it is ok to "murder" a fetus at 14 weeks
but a fetus growing in the womb, bred by an uncle who raped
his 14 year old niece and the fetus will be born without a head
and will die as soon as he is born, must be carried to full term,
unless the little girl reported it to the police, wasn't really raped
and she must carry this headless fetus until it is born to die.
i'll have to think a little more about your compromise
Rick, the key word is "compromise". As long as people on both sides are unwilling to compromise, there will be no progress on the issue. As long as we live in a representative democracy, abortion will never be 100% legal or 100% illegal anywhere. The only solution is compromise. Yes, 20 weeks is a good compromise.
The hardcore anti-abortionists believe that life begins at conception. While this is technically true, if you want to
legislate from that point of view, it would make the morning after pill illegal, in vitro fertilization illegal, stem cell research illegal, and would force rape victims to give birth to their rapists' babies. So the hardcore anti-abortionists need to compromise and move a little toward the center.
The hardcore pro-abortionists believe that a woman should be able to get an abortion at any time, even after the point that the fetus could survive outside the mother's womb. Many of them also believe abortions should be free and that taxpayer money should pay for them. So they need to compromise and move a little toward the center.
And hypothetical scenario arguments are lame.