bgz wrote:LOL
Abortion has always been a political topic that I didn't really care about.
Now that I'm a little older, a little wiser...
I'd rather pay a little now than welfare for life.
Ironically if you think about this issue from a fiscal conservative point of view, you would be for abortions.
So I have to agree with others in this thread that say the reasoning for being against abortion is religious, and I believe that anyone who says it isn't, must be religious.
For the record, I'm a right leaning atheist.
Agreed.
In fact, one could take it a step further and point out that the entire concept that life itself has some precious value beyond the value put in to the individual is itself a religious concept.
A person's life has no intrinsic value, ie you are only what you bring to the table. An unborn fetus has brought nothing to the table, no money has been invested in its education, no time, food or resources have been spent on its life, growth, skills etc. Additionally, nothing is known about its potential value regarding intelligence, leadership or propensity to cause property damage or mayhem.
As such, it has no value. To apply value to it at that time is a religious concept.
Perhaps some day in the future when genetic screening can accurately determine the capabilities of a fetus (will it be tall? good looking? intelligent? a world leader? a leading scientist?) then a fetus MAY have value, but that will cut both ways as some will have less value. But until then....
(cue someone cutting in and saying "but victor! if life has no value, why do we have laws against murder!!")... this is pretty simple. Society values us not murdering each other, not because individually we have value, but because society cannot function if frank is killing dave for killing burt etc etc etc.