08-08-2015, 09:07 PM
(08-08-2015, 08:56 PM)bfine32 Wrote: At least you are now recognizing that the unborn child is a person.
I never denied it was. Merely said that was irrelevant to my argument. I've never stated my actual position on personhood for an embryo/fetus because of the irrelevance. And lastly, my statement wasn't calling it a person, merely pointing out that something can be caused unwittingly and passively.
(08-08-2015, 08:56 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: Making abortion legal does that too. It puts the rights of the mother of the rights of the living person inside of her.
But leaving the decision to those involved leaves the government out of deciding one over the other. The decision to abort for the vast majority of women that choose to do so is a very difficult one and the potential child is thought about in that process (no matter how much people like to claim it isn't) over and over. It is not a decision that is taken lightly and one that is best left in the hands of those involved rather than a third party making a blanket ruling.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
