04-15-2016, 04:36 PM
(04-15-2016, 04:24 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Personally i don't see how you can call a glob of cells an individual human that deserves individual rights greater than the mother. And you think I am wrong. At this point there is nothing really to argue about. All we will do is keep repeating "I am right. You are wrong." and it is all based on nothing but opinion.
See, my argument is independent from the embryo/fetus being an individual or not. It is not the government's role to value one individual's rights over another individual's. By criminalizing abortion, the state is doing just that. Abortion as an issue is one that is far too complex and nuanced for any law to be able to cover every contingency in a fair manner. When that is the case, as someone that values limited government, the decision should be left to those involved. The argument that the rights of the unborn are not taken into account by the mother deciding to have an abortion is one of the more ridiculous ones out there, to me. As someone that has known women struggling with the decision I can attest that many, if not most, of those women that decide to end their pregnancy of their own volition think long and hard about that decision.
