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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
It's not well said. It's a statement that doesn't even begin to make sense unless you assume from the start that abortion is more like buying clothes than killing kids. And even then, it's poorly phrased at best.
"Laws that control people's lives like that" are ESSENTIAL. We should control whether one steals, whether one bears false witness, whether one assaults, whether one murders. Those feelings of outrage you feel when you hear about Enron or Abu Ghirab? Those feelings should control other peoples' lives.
There's reasonable debate in whether abortion is really similar enough to such things to warrant emotion-controlling laws. But this broad line of argument, as stated, is plainly absurd.
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OK, I guess we're going to quibble over phrasing. Fine. I'll play.
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Originally Posted by Dibbler
I really wish this could just be banned from discussion by government officials. I'm a pro life person but don't feel that my feelings should control someone else's life. There shouldn't be any laws that control people's lives like that.
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Government officials shouldn't discuss it. In other words, it's a personal decision. You do not know the circumstances where any particular mother would chose to end a pregnancy. Maybe they're a scared high school kid with a college scholarship. Maybe they're a crack addict. Maybe it's going to be a girl and the parents want a boy.
Of course the government should control how people interact with one another. They should not control how people pro-create or chose not to.
Oh, and to get to your argument about how this is poorly phrase, you fucked up when you chose to ignore the first clause - "I wish". That's what I agreed with. To then attack a statement as being poorly phrase because it's a simple wish is asinine.