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Originally Posted by blahblah454
I knew a girl for about 10 years before I started to date her. About half way through our dating stint she found out that her mother had had an abortion a couple months previously. I have never seen her or her little brother more upset in my entire time knowing them. They felt that their brother/sister had been murdered and were affected greatly by the fact. The sadness was deeper than if a friend or loved one died I found, they felt that at least the people they knew who died had a chance to live before they passed on, the unborn child did not even have a chance.
Judging from that experience I would say that it is a little bit more of a deal than most people think. But the experience is different for everyone.
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That depends on one's outlook on the creation of a human being. I would term the people who think of first trimester abortions and miscarriages as "not having a chance to live" as naive and idealistic. If the consciousness is not there to begin with, nothing is lost, and no potential is lost. Either we live in a random, spiritless world, in which case no person was created to have a chance to live in the first place, or if we do live in a spirited world, whatever entity would have been created in that body will find another or go on existing outside the material realm (or as another part of it).