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Originally Posted by allaboutmusic
I still say this makes you the direct opposite of the pro-life movement. For want of a better term: "pro-death".
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That's as useless as me saying that you're the direct opposite of the pro-choice movement so you must be "anti-choice."
It really doesn't say much, does it? Perhaps because the label is arbitrary, capricious, and (like all labels) does not handle exceptions? You can call me whatever you want, but it doesn't change the fact that I see no reason to dramatically alter lives, lifestyles, and quality of life for 2-3 people because a set of cells have coagulated in a place they weren't previously. I don't think that makes me "pro-death," because I believe that many normal, conscious human beings should be protected above all else, and sometimes even warrant changing our lives and lifestyles to accompany them.
Do you really feel there is a shortage of sperm, eggs, fetuses or children such that we should say "Well, we'd better get married now. We'll never have THIS opportunity again?!"
Somehow I think if you're really in love and you're having sex to procreate, there will be plenty more "blessed children" to raise after you're lawfully and agreeably married. And in the event that you're not in love, not having sex to procreate, or not willing to be married, I'm sure that you'll STILL have plenty more PLANNED chances with willing partners.
EVEN if I believed (as Ustwo purports) that an unwanted child can somehow be raised in a functional household by two strangers forced into wedlock by it's arrival, I don't see why we should encourage people to gamble on such an arrangement when it's very easy to remove the forced decision and wait for a child to be delivered when a household has ALREADY been established for their eventual well- being.
If there ever becomes a shortage of such reproductive materials, I'll readily recant my statements and encourage people to save a scarce resource. Until then, we're talking at worst ruining lives and at best bringing a child into an unstable home because of a very dramatized lie about the "sanctity" and "scarcity" of a VERY abundant non-human resource.