Well...I beat her to the punch...homosexuality was debated on my LJ...if you count that as a political forum.
Pro-life? Pro-choice? I think all people are inherently pro-life, and pro-choice is just a nice way of saying what abortion really is. Everyone has the choice to take another life.
Perhaps the umbrella of foolishness was a bit too ambiguous. I find the notion of people cheering for abortion as a fix to the consequences of their promiscuity foolish. This is what truly irks me. Teenage girls (or even older women) having sex, safe of not, getting pregnant, and having an abortion because they can't be bothered by the life which they created. If they can't be bothered by the consequences of their actions, then they shouldn't be having sex in the first place.
As far as rape or actual medical reasons behind abortion go. I'm not too sure. I think every effort should be made to ensure the survival of both mother and baby. I haven't studied into the various situations where medically one may be justified in terminating a pregnancy as the mothers life would be at risk. I would hate to be in the awful situation. When deemed by competent medical authorities that the life of one must be terminated in order to save the life of the other, many agree that it is better to spare the mother. But these circumstances are rare, particularly where modern medical care is available. Another sympathetic concern applies to pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. The tragedy is compounded because, in such relationships, freedom of choice is denied the woman who is innocently involved. But less than 3 percent of all abortions are performed for these two reasons. The other 97 percent are performed for what may be termed “reasons of convenience.”
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Re: Holy shit!
Date: 2004-04-27 08:41 pm (UTC)Pro-life? Pro-choice? I think all people are inherently pro-life, and pro-choice is just a nice way of saying what abortion really is. Everyone has the choice to take another life.
Perhaps the umbrella of foolishness was a bit too ambiguous. I find the notion of people cheering for abortion as a fix to the consequences of their promiscuity foolish. This is what truly irks me. Teenage girls (or even older women) having sex, safe of not, getting pregnant, and having an abortion because they can't be bothered by the life which they created. If they can't be bothered by the consequences of their actions, then they shouldn't be having sex in the first place.
As far as rape or actual medical reasons behind abortion go. I'm not too sure. I think every effort should be made to ensure the survival of both mother and baby. I haven't studied into the various situations where medically one may be justified in terminating a pregnancy as the mothers life would be at risk. I would hate to be in the awful situation. When deemed by competent medical authorities that the life of one must be terminated in order to save the life of the other, many agree that it is better to spare the mother. But these circumstances are rare, particularly where modern medical care is available. Another sympathetic concern applies to pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. The tragedy is compounded because, in such relationships, freedom of choice is denied the woman who is innocently involved. But less than 3 percent of all abortions are performed for these two reasons. The other 97 percent are performed for what may be termed “reasons of convenience.”