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Originally Posted by Jozrael
This brings up the age-old question: Assume that you could earn x amount of money (or whatever reward you want) if you would merely take a gun and pull the trigger at someone's head. There is one bullet in the magazine, the rest are blanks. Thus there is a y chance of it actually happening. Also, you would not be prosecuted at all for the death if they died.
How big of a reward would there have to be before you were ok with pulling the trigger? Conversely, how small would the chance of death have to be before you were ok? 1 in 10? 1 in 10,000? 1 in six trillion?
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Ok, despite the horrible analogy that it is, I will try and get through it.
The bullet is the chance of pregnancy and subsequent abortion (and to you, the murder of a person), the reward is well...sexual pleasure.
I think you have your answer, if that's how you see it. No amount of pleasure justifies taking a life (no matter how small the chance of death may be).
I don't see things this way. I am pro-choice, and I believe that we are not primitive as we once were and have the power to make choices. Hell we have sex most times for pleasure, that says it all about choice.
I do not believe that abortion, if done in the early stages of pregnancy, is as abhorrent as most people say. I do find women who use abortion as a form of contraception totally sick. You see there is a middle ground. Just because you have an abortion does not necessarily mean you have a disrespect for human life.
My main reservation when it comes to abortion, apart from perverse situations where women abuse that choice, is that psychologically it must be very traumatic for the woman. For myself, I don't believe I could have one. But I don't think that gives me the right to decide over the life of anyone else, mother or child.
I think you can have sex with a condom and the pill and you'll be fine. Stop being paranoid. If it happens, you can cross that bridge when you come to it. In the meantime, live your life as you want to live it - the way I see it, you only have one life to make the most of.