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Originally posted by The_Dude
to me, the baby is still part of her till it comes out.
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Well, the baby is a separate living developing human being before it is born. Are you suggesting that if, on the day that the woman's water breaks, if she decides that she doesn't want a child after all that she should be able to abort it at that moment, hours from being born? If not, where are you willing to draw the line? If so, wow -- that's impressive in a very disturbing way.
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Originally posted by The_Dude
to me, it's like saying you cant whack off cuz you're killing potential offspring. govt has no right to tell me what i can/cant do w/ my body as long as i dont harm anyone else (no, i dont think the baby is a person, maybe that's cuz i was brought up in a society where abortion was considered as contraception)
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You are able to do whatever you want with your body (for the most part), but an unborn baby is "someone else" as soon as it has its own heartbeat, regardless of how much you deny it. You should spend some time around women who are pregnant, and newborns and see if you have any more respect for the process of child development and birth. It's not just an unfortunate side-effect of drunken sex in an alley like a hangover, you know.
As for "to me, it's like saying you cant whack off cuz you're killing potential offspring", limiting unnecessary abortions is nothing at all like telling someone not to masturbate. Please don't compare me to wacko nut-jobs that consider masturbation to be equal to abortion. Abortion (especially after 12 weeks) should be considered a last resort, as it is the most harmful way to prevent a pregnancy -- to the mother and the child.