Abortion

FT's thread just got aborted

Do you think it's wrong even in the case of rape or possible health problems being present to the mother?

My biggest concern re: abortion is that I cannot possibly imagine when life begins. I know it’s not at conception; zygotes split and absorb each other. So the day after pill is fine to me. I’d be fine with an abortion the day after, though there isn’t such a thing.

The problem is later; is it at a couple weeks? Maybe. It might be. If I don’t know, I can’t be “pro” abortion. I also can’t find it in myself to force women to have children they don’t want. It’s complicated, it’s emotional, and it’s something I do not have the right answer to, so I default to the sort of flaccid “safe, legal, and rare”. I would add “and very early”, and “certainly not in the third trimester”.

What a horrible, god-awful thread

It apparently is a political position, since so many politicians are against it.

Also, there's the abortion ban bill in the Ohio state legislature, so I'm pretty sure this is also political.

Ahh great answer!!!

You're free to donate your organs to whomever you want. People don't have abortions to make money like you're talking about.

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I think there's a pretty good scientific argument that life begins at conception.

At conception, you have cells growing and dividing- an essential function of life. You cannot have life without a group of cells growing and dividing.
ETA: Every human alive today started as a single cell growing and dividing.

If agreed, the group of cells are human. They are not going to turn into any other form of life.

Therefore, I believe it is a life and a human life.

I think ending a human life for the sake of ending human life is wrong.

I am also against the death penalty for this reason as well.


In both cases, when the life poses a threat to other life, case-by-case arguments can be made. They are not the norm, and essentially none of these points apply.



ETA2:
I also think an argument could be made for implantation. I do not particularly like this one, but using this argument is a lot easier for the sake of legislation. All humans also successfully implanted as a group of growing, dividing cells, etc.
The previous definition would make it quite difficult for several forms of contraception to remain legal- many low-dose pills allow for ovulation and fertilization but prevent implantation. Plan B prevents implantation. Some IUDs as well, etc.