theHiredMansWife said:
Because I can see both sides of the issue? :???:
I don't favor abortion. I've never considered one. I've never known anyone who has. (or maybe I have and she just didn't tell me, knowing my opinion...)
But that doesn't suddenly limit my ability to see flaws. And i think this "law" is really nothing more than just testing the waters in the new Supreme Court.
Were it real, stealing a gun would not be considered a more serious crime than abortion.
We have funny laws like that now.
A few years ago, two young men were convicted of vehiculare(sp) homicide, in the death of a man, who happened to be of native american descent. They were sentenced to 3.5 years.
A few years later, one of these men's fathers was convicted of stealing cattle. He was sentenced to 9 years.
Does that make sense?
I can see both sides also, in the abortion debate. But I still think it's wrong to kill a baby. And yes, it is a baby, whether born or unborn.
When we preg test in the fall and the vet finds a fetus, he doesn't say, "Well theres a fetus in there but it ain't a calf yet." He says "She's bred". Meaning there is a live viable baby calf inside the cow. Without any complications, she will give birth to a live baby calf. If you reach in and break the neck of that calf fetus, she will abort and you have killed a calf, even tho' it hasn't been born yet.
If Dis insists that they are just a mass of cells, I could say that, that is all any of us are. A mass of cells. So when you cause a female to abort that mass of cells, you've killed a baby. Even if it is just a mass of cells. As any of us are.
Dis and all pro abortion people, are just are too cowardly to admit that they want to have the right to kill anyone who is a problem to them. When they allow that for people after they are born, then I'll go along with it, before they are born. And all of those who cause me a problem will be treated the same. Dis and people like her/him/it, cause me a problem.
See how it works?
You can defend yourself, that tiny mass of cells can't.
So I feel it is my duty to protect him/ her. Dis seem to feel it is her/him/it's duty to defend people who want to kill unborn babies. YOU want to straddle the fence, or so it seems.
No matter what terrible thing has happened to anyone, I can't see as killing a baby is in any way, ever going to make that problem better.
If a woman or girl gets raped or impregnated through incest, it is terrible. But why kill a baby and think it will make the problem go away or make it any better? Terrible things happen to people every day. We have to learn to accept that it happened and make the best of it. Callous, crude or realistic?
I do think it is possible to have a rape victim given a "morning after pill" and as I understand it this is still possible with the passage of this new law, in SD. If a girl is the victim of incest, I don't know what we can do, unless she would go to a health care worker as soon as it happens, and from what I've heard, the child is sworn to secrecy by the purpetrater(sp), so she will be 2 to 3 months pregnant by the time anyone will know that she is pregnant. And I've heard of few, if any, who believe in abortion, by that point.
So no matter how you argue it, I can never see abortion as solving any problems, just creating more.