Brewha wrote:I think you kind of made my point, since you offered no logic beyond an emotional plea.
Nine to ten weeks a person makes? Why not say two cell should have the right to vote, or that it is murder to cut of a foot? You look at beginnings and see the end – before the end is at hand.
I agree with the reverence for life. But lets not call people 'people' before their time.
Do you feel your values are uniquely correct? Would you force them upon your peers?
My response was based on emotion, to be certain.
But that doesn't make it any less true. That's the beauty of facts.
I understand that your position comes from a perspective of simply not knowing. And that's OK.
As for my values? They are hardly unique, yet I wouldn't force them upon anyone.
I would never push to make abortion illegal.
Quite the opposite, in fact. I would push to EDUCATE those who make that "choice".
Crossing one's arms and closing eyes tight while chanting "I"m pro CHOICE" is a position of ignorance when the one making that choice doesn't even know what the procedure entails. Yet, this is what the pro-choice crowd is pushing for: to make abortions more readily available and at little or no cost. To allow children to get abortions without adult consent. To make an abortion easier to get, while failing to provide information about all the other options. These are facts.
I make no claim to knowing when "life" begins.
But I do know that at 10 weeks an abortion is the stilling of a beating heart. This is a fact. Indisputable.
One could argue that at 10 weeks the child wouldn't survive outside the womb. And that may be true in 2012, but what about in 2020? Does the 10 week fetus suddenly become a person because of technology?
And what about the infant child? Can they survive without assistance simply because they're already born?
If their dependence doesn't deny them the right to be called a "person", then why does the 10 week old's dependence get used as "proof" that they're not yet a living creature?
What I find most appalling about the pro-choice crowd is that they're so busy fighting for the RIGHT to get an abortion that they never take the time to consider IF they should get one.