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TIO · 11-08-2004, 02:16 PM

The current wording of the abortion thing confuses me: saying we need to reduce the number of abortions? What kind of shit is that? There are only two alternatives here.
First: a foetus is a living human being, and must therefore be protected by the same laws as the rest of us. Abortion is murder, abortion doctors and aborted mothers-to-be are prosecuted alike.
Second: a foetus isn't conscious yet, and is therefore just a bunch of cells that aren't doing much at the moment. Having an abortion to remove a foetus is no worse than getting a wart burnt off, and the only reason we'd want to reduce numbers is because it's becoming a drain on existing medical resources. Abortion clinics, as I understand it, have their own equipment and doctors, so it's not like any of them are being used for abortions when they could be doing other things, so the only problem is that it may be a burden on the taxpayers. Are abortions subsidised by Medicare?

Either way, it makes no sense to reduce the number of abortions. Either you ban them entirely, or you stop worrying.

11-08-2004, 02:16 PM	#26 (permalink)
TIO Addict Location: The Land Down Under	The current wording of the abortion thing confuses me: saying we need to reduce the number of abortions? What kind of shit is that? There are only two alternatives here. First: a foetus is a living human being, and must therefore be protected by the same laws as the rest of us. Abortion is murder, abortion doctors and aborted mothers-to-be are prosecuted alike. Second: a foetus isn't conscious yet, and is therefore just a bunch of cells that aren't doing much at the moment. Having an abortion to remove a foetus is no worse than getting a wart burnt off, and the only reason we'd want to reduce numbers is because it's becoming a drain on existing medical resources. Abortion clinics, as I understand it, have their own equipment and doctors, so it's not like any of them are being used for abortions when they could be doing other things, so the only problem is that it may be a burden on the taxpayers. Are abortions subsidised by Medicare? Either way, it makes no sense to reduce the number of abortions. Either you ban them entirely, or you stop worrying. __________________ Strewth Last edited by TIO; 11-08-2004 at 02:19 PM..