YouTube videos got me thinking again
Just finished watching a video on You Tube. Jason told me about the newest ProLife ad...in which it shows a developing fetus and says that that baby would live a hard life, dad would abandon mom and baby, single mom would raise him, but through the hardships he would become the 1st African American President. Ironic since this President has
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But, 1.) how do you know they feel pain? and 2.) that it reacts?
As far As I was told, by a friend (more a girl that I didn't care for but had no one else) when she had it done, she was asked if she would like the body for cremation (it was 3 months developed at the time), she said no, but did watch the procedure, and saw the "thing" It looked like a deformed giant lima bean, it didn't move. From what she remembered/told me they inject it with something (she had no clue when or even if)? I don't think she really knew. But it was dead before it was out of her. It didn't move on the ultra sound. YET, according to the doctor it would have been healthy had it gone to term. *shrugs*
Not to sound callous, but ... really, it has no brain function up to a certain time, the world is over populated as is and well, once your dead you feel nothing any way.
As to religion? Sorry, that won't convince me. There may well be a god, but I doubt it's the one of the bible, great book, but just that ... a book! It was a way for humans to explain things they didn't know.
And yes, from the SECOND I found out I was pregnant it was MY baby, he was amazing, I talked to him, loved him. But guess what? IF I was raped? or god forbid, became pregnant now? Yeah, I would not hesitate to have an abortion. Mind, hubby being fixed? I doubt that will happen! At my age, health along with the fact I smoke and well, to be honest don't take the greatest care of myself, I doubt any pregnancy would go full term.
How do you feel about miscarriages? Or "semi-abortions"(Can NOT remember the actual term. *blush*)? My friend had twins (though, she had NO CLUE until a month after her baby was born, singly). The doctor told her that the way the second fetus was developing, had they discovered it earlier in the pregnancy it would have been better to abort it. They called it a "semi-abortion". Even though it was only two months along, it made for a much smaller baby than if she'd only had the one. The fact they shared the placenta, and didn't have their own, had the second baby lived longer? Both could have died at birth, one WOULD have died at birth (if not sooner) IF she'd not had an abortion of one.
So, yeah, after all that rambling ... those reasons and more are why I am pro-choice.
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As far as aborting one child to save another. Every life has a purpose, no matter how short. We don't always know what that purpose is, but that doesn't give us the right to choose when a life should end. Everyone always says as humans we have a right to life, liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness. An aborted baby is robbed of every single one of those rights. A woman does have the right to choose what happens to her body, but the child she carries in her is a seperate living human. That child isn't a virus, or disease.
As far as rape, it's not the child's fault. It's not even the mom's fault. And as much as I am not fond of the Morning After Pill, I'd rather that be used than abortion after the child has had a chance to begin. That pill's entire purpose is to prevent an unwanted pregnancy after an instance of unprotected sex. And though there's a time limit on it's effectivness it is good for a couple of days.
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See, as to your second paragraph? Yeah, see that to me seems extremely cold hearted. Had my friends second child actually lived longer than two months, she would have lost both babies, and possibly her own life.
The thing with the second fetus, is that it was a parasite, not a baby. Had it managed to survive past the second month, both babies WOULD have died, festering inside of her until more than likely her own life would have been at risk. As it was, it died some time before the second month, somehow managed never to be expelled by the womb even at the birth of the live baby. It went unnoticed for two months causing pain and infections for my friend. Had they not found it when they did, there was a huge chance of her dying.
I could not imagine denying a mother the right to abort one child to save both herself and the other child. Especially knowing that keeping it could in fact kill all three of them. Knowing that even if (the chance is/was 1 in a million) they both survive to birth, both WOULD die within minutes of birth. Knowing that the parasitic child would never be fully formed. No, to me THAT would be the most horrible thing. Forcing a mother to carry 2 children to their certain death and a large possibility of killing herself in the process.
As for rape, science is proving that many many children of rape/violent parents/drugs etc, do seem to have a gene that predestines them to such acts themselves.
No, it may NOT be the child's fault. But was it the mothers either? To force her to carry a child of a violent act against her to carry it to term? Force her to re-live it day in and day out for the full nine months? And if the child survives, force that mother to relive the rape EVERY DAY of her life until her death or the child's? EVEN if she gives up that child, every day she remembers, every birthday of that child she remembers. Add to that, that she knows the science about genes, worries that she may have given birth to a monster. ADDED to the violence in the world. Until she ends up in a mental institution or kills herself.
Is THAT fair?
Even the bible says "an eye for an eye". Kill a killer. Is that not the case in both of the scenarios?
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