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The difference is that one is a human being and one is a foetus. I must admit I'm not 100% comfortable with this but there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Saying that the human life begins anytime before birth leads us down a path which ends in a moralistic ban on all abortions.
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Meri, this is a difference in
name only, not a qualitative difference at all. Do you not agree that calling something by a different
name, does not in the slightest change whatever
qualities we might assign to that thing?
If so, the 'difference' you have noted is nothing of the sort, and hence, if there is no difference in the
qualities of these two things, we have no reason for such a marked difference in
treatment or evaluation of these two things.
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Firstly, there are medical reasons (and as I am not a doctor these might be completely wrong); somehow the baby is endangering the mother, the baby is already dead in utero.
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I wholly agree.
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Secondly, babies created via rape - if I was a woman and this happened to me, I wouldn't want to keep it...
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Isn't adoption a solution to this problem?
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Thirdly, I was going to mention financial/situation reasons, but even I don't think they are that strong a reason (ironically, the weakest reason I can list is probably the one used the most).
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Along with this one also?
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Spindles, I fear you tried to disguise your support for this last point because you felt others would look down upon this. I think this is a valid reason for wanting to abort a foetus. I myself have been in this sitution in second year at uni. The girl in question done everything right, but still became pregnant when on the contraceptive pill. There's no way on god's green earth we could have financially supported this child, and I am completely comfortable with the decision we made and the reasons for making it.
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Which leads me to ask Meri, why did you not consider adoption in this situation?