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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
i'm sorry, but you're wrong. the only difference between an abortion and forced sterilization is that one is stopped pre-fertilization and the other post-fertilization. in both cases, left alone, a child would be born. if a woman wants to have 3 kids, and you sterilize her before she has any, you are keeping 3 kids from being born. if she got pregnant 3 times and you made her abort them, you are keeping three kids from being born. sterilization is just one logical step ahead of abortion. at least abortion has the benefit of allowing the woman to have a child at a later date when she's ready and wants one.
jerking off isn't murder because those sperm weren't intended to be used for making babies. sterilization keeps ovum (planned for fertilization) from being used to make babies. notice a difference in the intent?
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Respectfully, you are on crack.
An abortion is an active act of killing - people can argue whether it is "murder" or whether it is something else, but undeniably, a life is extinguished when an abortion occurs, and at some of the later stages of development, the infant feels pain before death. Nice.
Sterilization (although I was not seriously advocating its use, but lets go down that road anyway) kills no one.
Notice a difference?
Let's review: abortion kills. And the people who are vehemently pro-choice, who can only couch their meaning in terms like "it's just a bunch of cells, dude", are, IMO, in denial.
We used to practice infanticide in the West and not that long ago. We figured that such practices were barbaric and uncivilized and we now look with disgust on people in India and China and Nigeria who continue to kill excess children and call them savage.
IMO, a couple of generations from now, when we are more enlightened, we will look with disgust on abortion (at least after the first trimester or so) and call the people who did it savage and selfish, in this land of plenty.
We will in the future look with more understanding on the poor third world dirt farmer who kills the extra infant mouth than we will on virtually anyone in the Western world who killed their child in the womb because it would force them to buy a house in the suburbs, wreck their dress size or stop them from partying on a regular basis.