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03-12-2011, 04:21 PM
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Regardless of definitions of murder and human being, I think that, especially on a planet as overpopulated as ours, someone should be able to decide for themselves if they want to keep the baby they are carrying. Not in any scenario I can come up with would the abortion hurt anyone, including the fetus since that isn't even self-aware yet. And in my book something is fine as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

Is it morally okay? Well this is where we hit a snag, because that would depend on your morals. Religious people are, almost by definition, all raised with the same morals that human life is sacred and should be protected at all cost. Those of us who realize that we're approaching 7 billion people on 1 planet and could actually do with a few million less of us would weigh the long term options. If human life is sacred and we're slowly killing the planet, and thus ourselves, by constantly reproducing, would it not be morally right to have an abortion as it protects the greater human populace on the planet in the long run?

And besides all that, should it not be a case by case decision? In the case of the idiot 16 year old slut in the example I'd say the first abortion is acceptable, but after that you give the bitch some sex ed, a box of condoms and an anti conception pill. She gets pregnant a second time? Sure, fine, abort it again. You wouldn't want a 16 year old raising a child anyway, that's asking for trouble. But this time we don't only take the child, but also the bitch's uterus. Problem solved.

But what if someone is raped and is now pregnant from the rapist? Should that person be keeping the product of the most horrible even of her life? Even from a morality standpoint you would find it morally okay to let someone go trough 9 months of hell, delivery and raising a child they didn't even want, thus completely mentally draining that person to the last drop. All that is worth one human life? Not in my book, it isn't.
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