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Originally Posted by martinguerre
Did it ever occur to you that mental illnesses, including those with onset due to trauma, have a significant fatality rate?
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Sure. What didn't occur to me is that abortion would ever provide life-saving mental benefits that any other treatment (psychological or otherwise) couldn't. Actually, a thought which also isn't occuring to me is that abortion could save a woman who was mentally on the edge of death.
Can you give me a case of mental distress/illness where the only options were losing the patient or killing the fetus?
Can you give me a case of mental distress/illness where abortion could even be a life-saving option?
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Originally Posted by james t kirk
When the day comes that the Right to Birth crowd takes up arms to assist the children already living below the poverty line, and they agree to face the implications of millions of unwanted children, then I am all for banning abortion.
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Here, here's your worst-case scenario: the majority of the country is made up of evil, uncaring, uncharitable Randians. They give nothing and they vote in a government that gives nothing.
Even in that scenario, that would do nothing to fault the pro-life position. "You should be caring for those unwanted children!" does NOT lead to "We should be able to kill them if you don't!" Guilt-tripping ransom does not amount to a logical argument.
Unless, of course, they're just a clump of cells. But that would take the focus off your brand of argument. It's a valueless argument either way.
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So, tell me about that right to life arguement again.
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Abortion isn't an acceptable solution for unwanted children any more than infanticide is. There's that right to life argument again.