Pathetic reasoning. A fetus isn't a "potential" life. It is already ALIVE -and it is human, not a puppy or a goldfish. A fetus may naturally die before birth -but when that happens, it wasn't a POTENTIAL life that was lost. It was a real one. Just because government doesn't count that life as a CITIZEN until it takes a breath doesn't mean it isn't a human LIFE. So you are actually saying that you believe it is the level of maturity a human reaches that determines whether that life has any value or not.
Human life is inherently valuable -and its value cannot be determined by the age or level of maturity of that life -and can NEVER be based on whether OTHERS find value in that life or not. I think it is absolutely revolting that it is ALWAYS people who don't actually own that life who decide someone else can't be allowed to keep it. Once you draw a line and say human life on THIS side of the line is valuable and may not be killed -but all those on the other side of that line are fair game and we all have a "right" to slaughter them at will, then you can expect to see people insist that line needs to be moved further out.
And we already have. People now arguing the severely brain damaged shouldn't be allowed to live, the "right" to deliberately create human life in the lab for the SPECIFIC purpose of killing it in order to save another, OLDER human life. Just more life judged to be not quite "alive". And funny, but its always people who don't even own that life who insist that human life cannot be allowed to KEEP IT.
I also find it absolutely AMAZING that the people who argue the hardest for the "right" to kill someone if their existence is a mere inconvience to someone else -also argue the hardest against the death penalty. Kill the innocent and kill them by the MILLIONS for the "crime" that their mother finds their very existence to be inconvenient? Even kill the less than perfect because THEY have decided that life is meant only for the "perfect". But those who actually pose a great danger to others -even while in prison -must not be executed? Those people have their priorities so screwed up it is mindboggling. A death sentence is reserved only for those who have CHOSEN to forfeit their life by their ACTS -and knew full well in ADVANCE, that those actions would result in that forfeiture. They had a CHOICE.
All societies are judged by how they treat the most vulnerable among them. We said it was open season on our most vulnerable -and worst of all, who is vulnerable to that open season just keeps getting larger. Hitler -who first started off by allowing abortion on demand, then forced abortion then slaughter of the physically and mentally handicapped and then moved on to what he considered undesirable "races and groups" -appears to have just been a few decades too early and needed to wait for the generation that had the stomach for it. Those who insist that others have a "right" to judge the worthiness of any human life to continue owning that life -have sold their soul.
How YOU treat those that are alive is very important....you can react with those that have been born and your actions can matter in the life or even the death of a child or teen or adult or senior....that has been born.
The unborn child is NOT among us yet, in society....so you can not interact or make any decisions on how this baby to be will live in our society....it is not your decision to make.
At the point of viability, I believe we do have some say on what is going on in another person's body, and the SC with Roe V Wade also covered this to a degree, only allowing thru law the right to personal privacy... abortion up to the point of viability of the child to be....taking in to consideration the born (the mother to be) as having more say so and rights than the unborn.
This is NOT something new to our society....if there were a person in a burning fertility clinic building and also frozen fertilized embryos in the same building engulfed in flames....the PERSON would be rescued, then if possible, the fertilized frozen embryos....but the person BORN would most certainly take priority over the UNBORN human life.
If there were a child in the fire and a man in the fire and only one could be rescued, the child would be rescued before the adult male imo. In this case both being born, there still is an ethical pecking order in emergencies....
A visibly pregnant woman would probably be rescued before a man in the fire or even before a woman not pregnant....because we do recognize that the pregnant woman is carrying another potential human life.....
The unborn is not given personhood in any society that I know about until they are born, until they take their first breath or can take their first breath....before this, this offspring is in the possession of the host...the mother to be.
As far as those that are born already, that have disabilities....whether it be mental or physical, they are BORN already and ARE the least AMONG US....and how we treat them is part of society....the baby to be is NOT AMONG US yet.
I don't think these women should abort their child to be, but I know that this decision is not mine to make and that each individual couple or the woman alone if the man splits, has the personal responsibility to make this heart wrenching decision.
Disproportionately, Black women are having abortions....much of this is due to the father running from his responsibility like a sprinter in the Summer Olympics... and from the negative feedback they get from "white" society for being a single mom on welfare....imho, otherwise they would probably not abort as much as they do.
There are more and more women that are owning up to their responsibility and having their babies OUT OF WEDLOCK.....we are nearing 45% of all children BORN in the USA today are born to SINGLE MOTHERS....it was only 15% not toooo long ago.
Seems to me that it is the MEN in our society that are shirking their responsibilities in the family life of their offspring and their mate....maybe the focus should go on to them....making these men that abandon their children an outcast in society, moreso than it is now....????
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