Originally posted by gqgk
i say prolife. if your going to have an abortion do the selfless thing and put it up for adoption. you can be charged for 2 counts of murder if you kill a pregnant woman (one of the counts being for the baby) but if you have an abortion its nothing. there is a double standard there. cause then its just saying the woman can choose to murder. cause thats what it is if you kill the baby w/o her consent. so does that mean my parents can choose to kill me too?
A fetus has exactly the consciousness of a carrot. It is a lump of tissue. Some people might say "oh, but it destroys POTENTIAL human life!" So what? Every time you masturbate, you are mass genociding millions of potential human life cells. In fact, your sperm die every second. That means that every second you don't spend having sex, you are destroying potential human life. Every time a girl has her period, she has let to waste potential human life. That means every month she isn't pregnant (while her body is able) she is destroying potential human life.
Yes, there is a double-standard, but think of the hypocrisy of most pro-lifers themselves. A survey found that most of them support the death penalty as a punishment. Some might say "oh, but they aren't innocent like an unborn child!" Once again, not the point. Being pro-death penalty is saying you support the idea that the government should have the right to decide who lives and who dies. Well, who are they to decide?
Your parents could indeed have chosen to abort you. You never would have known though, so it wouldn't matter from your standpoint.
Think about a girl who was raped. Who is the government to tell her that she HAS to have the baby - a constant reminder of the traumatic incident - for nine traumatic months before being able to rid herself of it? The baby would be at an orphanage, and would probably have a sub-par life regardless. Shouldn't every baby be a wanted baby? So which is the more evil act?
What about an ectopic pregnancy? What would you do there?