Why is it that all those opposed to human life fall back upon religion?
Since when has respect for the human life of the viable fetus become
"only a religious" issue? You certainly have a way to trivialize human
life. But then, many of those in support of on-demand abortion would
trivialize human life. These are the same people who would argue
how valuable the life of a serial murderer is to the human race, claiming
we become serial murderers if we execute even one of them. But have
no problem with pails being filled with aborted fetuses. Talk about your
paradoxes. Support life for serial murderers... don't support life unless
it has left the womb.
Remember that YOU'RE the guy who offered the same kind of argument
spewed out by religious fruitcakes. You're the guy who said "I support
a woman's right to choose - period." Which is no different at all from
fruitcakes like Globi who insist "I support the belief in a God having
an extra large peppermint lifesaver floating over his head - period."
You two have a lot in common. He's a Bible-thumper, and you're a
Roe-vs-Wade-ruling-thumper.
It's not about religion, my deluded friend... it's about human life. Or are
you still arguing that the fetus is not "human life"?
>> >> Welcome to the world of religion, my friend. Since your "I believe
>> >> in a woman's right to choose," can be stated as no different than
>> >> "I believe in God, and no one can tell me otherwise = period!"
>>
>> >Not reallly
>>
>> And yet they represent exactly the same thing... a dogmatic assertion
>> about something that the propounder argues does not have to be
>> explained... as if the orders came from God almighty.
>
>No, it is recognizing that only a woman can become pregnant! Not a
>man. Therefore I agree with her right to choose!
Right to choose WHAT? Not become pregnant?? I totally support that
right. So what's the problem, since it's obvious you find the object of
this dialog a bit too touchy for you to deal with. You deal with abstractions,
and don't see the results of your beliefs. Human life in the womb is all
a big joke to you. And through it all runs the clear proof that you are
totally unable to articulate exactly what it is about a woman's right you
choose to support.
>> >> It's always nice when I have a dialog with someone who states a
>> >> view, but doesn't care to discuss that view. What else do you
>> >> "believe in" ==> pixies, perhaps???
>>
>> >What is there to discuss?
>>
>> Perhaps the object of your sentence should at least be clarified. What
>> exactly is the object that a woman has a right to choose? And why isn't
>> that same right afforded to men, since it sounds a bit sexist to simply
>> say "I support a woman's right to choose"?
>
>A man can't get pregnant!
Well, no shit, Dick Tracy... and a woman can't create sperm without
the latest scientific help and overcoming some very broad moral and
ethical issues regarding the future of our species.
But I'm sure that once women can inseminate themselves you will be
firmly in support of their right to terminate on-demand any pregnancy
that might result.
In any case you still didn't answer the question. Your response was
similar to stating "the sky is blue," and expecting that to be the object
of your statement that "I support a woman's right to choose." If you're
concerned about my support for transgender sexual reassignment for
a woman to become a man... I'm totally in support of it... absolutely.
I'm also in support of the other direction, with a man becoming a
woman (although they can't get pregnant). But what does an answer
of "A man can't get pregnant!" have to do with the object of your
statement of support for a woman's right to choose? CHOOSE WHAT???
Is the mention of that "object" just too complicated for you... or is it
that your stomach gets queasy when thinking about it? Here's help --
http://home.earthlink.net/~onetimeuse/fetus.jpg
>> To choose WHAT, for heaven's sake? Or is that too complicated for you?
>> Your silly mantra doesn't really make any logical or practical sense as
>> written. Or is it your inability to actually speak of the "object" that the
>> woman has the right to choose. Perhaps it sort of sticks in your craw
>> when you visualize what you're actually supporting... and you fear
>> articulating it in more precise words will expose the hypocrisy in your
>> argument. See -
FINALLY!! And what has she chosen to abort??? Is she aborting "human
life"?? That's rather a critical question considering your unwavering
support of a woman's right to choose to get an abortion, even in the
third trimester. The question is what do YOU consider represents what
she is aborting? Or more precisely do you believe she is aborting
HUMAN LIFE? Just a yes or no is enough, because we are just probing
our separate opinions.
>> > Your only discussion is that women who choose are murderers!
>>
>> I don't believe the word "murderers" was ever mentioned by me. Perhaps
>> you have a guilty conscience.
>
>Then what religious law are they breaking according to you?
I have no idea, nor do I care, nor does religious law have anything to
do with my view regarding on-demand abortion. It would not matter
one jot to me if a religious law totally supported or totally opposed
on-demand abortion. Unlike you, I am not a slave to religion or the
view of any majority. I feel my personal view meets my subjective
standards of morality, fills every ethical requirement that might be
placed upon me, and benefits mankind in the end. Unlike you... I
oppose eugenics, and hold no belief that we can create a "master-race"
if we simply discard the unwanted.
Obviously YOU are the one insisting that "human life" can be found in
"religious law." That's not what I believe.
>> Scene 1 --
>> Nineteen-year-old twit walks in off the street to doctor's office --
>> Says to Doctor -- "Doc, I'm not happy with my viable right arm,
>> it interferes with my 'life style.' It's viable, but I have an absolute,
>> and inviolate right to 'my body-my self,' and I could possibly make
>> more money without it, and I can choose what to do with my own
>> body. Amputate my viable right arm, and throw it away. Right now!!"
>
>The embryo is not a part of the pregnant woman!
Prove it! Oh, wait... I get it... you equate the fetus with a "cancer"
growing inside of her that will insidiously grow unless excised by
an abortion doctor. Yeah... I've heard there are those who support
on-demand abortion who argue that there is no difference between an
unwanted fetus and cancer.
>> Doctor picks up phone... speaks 'in a whisper' to nurse...soon
>> orderlies in white-coats, carrying straight-jackets, come to take
>> young twit away to booby hatch.
>>
>> Scene 2 --
>> Nineteen year-old twit walks in off the street to doctor's office --
>> Says to Doctor -- "Doc, I have this viable piece of life growing
>> in my womb, and it interferes with my 'life style.' It's viable,
>> but I have an absolute, and inviolate right to 'my body-my self,'
>> and I can probably make more money without it, and I can choose
>> what to do with my body. Vacuum out this unwanted viable fetus,
>> and throw it away. Right now!!"
>
>Hmmm. I would not present it in that scope. I think it is a hard
>decision for most women to make = not the trival persuit you present
>it as such. Any human action can be make to look like a trivial
>persuit and not of value!
It's spelled "pursuit," please!! The very reason it is hard is all the
more reason to oppose on-demand abortion. Many women go through
extreme emotional episodes following an on-demand abortion. They
suffer recrimination and regret. It is society that makes such decisions
easily available... all the more reason that a woman feels caught up
in a temporary situation she cannot deal with. Post Abortion Syndrome
is a very real illness similar to PTSD. This is what society puts such
women through. Many women following an on-demand abortion
verbally express the feeling that they were pressured by society to
seek an easy way out of an unwanted pregnancy. Some even daydream
of the child being alive and with them.
Personally, I'm quite willing to pay my share of whatever it takes...
when are you "liberals' going to pick up a tab??
However, there is a very long line of Americans waiting to adopt.
Once again, if there is any obstacle to doing so that obstacle is our
own bureaucracy. Which is another reason why Americans seek
an easier way to adopt through foreign adoption agencies which
are all big business, and totally in support of on-demand abortion,
so the supply of American babies for adoption doesn't take away
some of their business.
>> How typical... that we would allow that twit to make that
>> 'life and death' decision. When we permit not a single
>> other act from any individual which would permit that
>> same decision to be made without oversight from our
>> society to determine that EACH individual decision
>> that took a life was necessary and essential.
>
>By naming her a twit, you have allready devalued her life - whcih I
>will not do.
Your purpose is to totally devalue the child she is carrying.
I oppose on-demand abortion, which means I support carrying every
viable fetus to full term, except if the life of the woman is threatened in
carrying to full term, or in circumstances of rape or incest. You claim
my support for carrying a fetus to full term is devaluing the life of the
woman; so obviously you insist that carrying a fetus to full term devalues
the life of the woman. You believe every live birth devalues the life
of the woman delivering that child into the world. While I support
bringing live birth, and oppose on-demand abortion. Don't you just hate
it when your own argument bites you in the ass?? Think you can
follow your own logic the see where it leads in in respect to who is
devaluing the life of a woman who brings her child to full birth?
> She has the right to have or not have the baby without
>one choice totally devaluing her life.
Legal right. I can't help it if society has devalued her life to
the point that she just wants to get rid of the unwanted child
she is carrying. How exactly is supporting the saving of human
life in the form of that fetus devaluing HER life? You really
need to check out who those woman getting an on-demand
abortion are. They are driven by their boyfriend, their parents,
and their peers to seek an easy out to an unwanted pregnancy.
Society makes it easy for them to devalue their life in making them
feel worthless after that easy on-demand abortion. However,
those women seeking on-demand abortions are not your middle-class,
30-something professionals. They are predominately Black, and
from a ghetto background, kept there by racism. And abortion
clinics purposely locate their clinics within walking distance from
the Black ghetto. They are perpetuating BLACK GENOCIDE!!! See --
http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html
Look at the FACTS!!! On average 1,876 Black babies are aborted
EACH AND EVERY YEAR!! I call them twits because they meet
the definition of that term --> a foolish, clueless person. They are
foolish because they are easily manipulated by their boyfriend, their
parents, their peers, their economic situation, and the cheap and
easy way that medical hucksters provide for them. It is AFTER...
when it's too late, that the recriminations set in... when the
attempts at suicide start... when the downward descent into
petty crime... and then perhaps more violent crime begin. When
they begin to realize they have devalued their own lives, and
those environmental situations helped them do it. It is on-demand
abortion that diminishes them emotionally, as they begin to doubt
their own worth. That's your doing. The very arguments you
offer are only evidence of the moral and ethical failure of on-demand
abortion in American society... which aims and enables the easiest
of on-demand abortions for poor Blacks in the ghetto.
> And if the baby would not be
>born viable or severely retarded, you would still demand she have the
>baby or die in the process! That is the ultimate value to place all
>the value on the embryo and none on the so-called valueless woman.
>
Wrong again. Your hysterical assertion based upon Machiavellian
deceit and lies is nothing other than the fact you feel you're losing
your grip in this argument regarding on-demand abortion.
Of course at the end of every on-demand abortion we see that the
unborn child has been terminated... in absolute terms! Survival rate
is ZERO. Now how many women who undergo on-demand abortion
are terminated... in absolute terms? What is their survival rate?
So which of the two of us has devalued human life??
When you have the answer to that it will become clear who is claiming
the unborn child is "valueless." Supporters of on-demand abortion
are always proud as peacocks to announce that in the case of the
pregnant woman there is a slightly less statistical chance of death from
having an on-demand abortion than there is to carrying that fetus to
full term. They have even used that as presumed justification for their
support for on-demand abortion.
Which is an argument if carried to ad nauseam extremes suggests
that no woman should carry to term since her chance of survival is
better with an on-demand abortion. If you claim that opposing
on-demand abortion devalues the life of the woman, then it must
be your claim that opposing full term delivery also devalues the
life of the woman. Since opposing on-demand abortion only means
carrying to full term. You can't have it both ways. I oppose
on-demand abortion, which means I support carrying every viable
fetus to full term, except if the life of the woman is threatened in
carrying to full term, or in circumstances of rape or incest.
You claim my support for carrying a fetus to full term is devaluing the
life of the woman; so obviously you insist that carrying a fetus to
full term is devaluing the life of the woman. Oh, woe is me...
you believe every live birth devalues the life of the woman delivering
that child into the world. Don't you just hate it when your own
argument bites you in the ass??
>> I am not opposed to abortion, per se. If that arm is
>> gangrenous, or cancerous... and medical authorities
>> determine it threatens the life of that twit... or the fetus
>> is determined to threaten the ...
>
>That is not what many religious people say =
Who cares what religious people say? You seem the only one concerned
about what religion might say. I personally don't care what they say... I
don't care what any fanatic liberal or conservative says. I'm only interested
in pointing out the facts, while you wander around in abstruse and fatuous
comments , including a disingenuous impugn that my opinions are based
upon a religion I presumably follow; even though I have repeatedly noted
that I am anti-religion. anti-ALL-RELIGION.
>the ultimate value is with the embryo =
Rubbish. Your argument is that the embryo HAS NO VALUE!! Period.
If a woman's life is threatened in carrying to term, or if a woman has been
raped, or is the victim of incest, I totally support the medical decisions
and the woman's choice to abort such a fetus. In no case... in no instance...
have I ever presumed to argue that the life of the fetus is more important
than the life, or true emotional well-being (based upon facts rather than
hearsay) of the pregnant woman.... PERIOD! While I have shown that
your claim is that supporting a woman delivering a child to live birth is
"devaluing her life."
>not the devalued woman -
Woman are devalued BY on-demand abortion. Most woman following an
on-demand abortion go though a very deep grieving process in which in
hindsight they feel they were made to believe it was so easy and quick
and harmless, and then realize it was not that emotionally easy. Many even
feel the pangs of this in the waiting room... finding it impossible to turn
back. Wishing they could somehow get away from the fetus without
hurting it. The procedure itself is short and the physical pain doesn't last
long, but the emotional scars are as evident as PTSD is in a soldier returning
from Afghanistan. Far too many come to the same conclusion following
an on-demand, and totally unnecessary abortion: Every once in a while a
ghost appears in the horizon waving and making her wonder if indeed,
she should have had room in heart for that unborn child. DEVALUED??? What
devalues a woman is when she is pressed into believing that her genetic
role is no longer of value to a society.
>which they are devalued by
>religion throughout their life.
I repeat -- WHAT does religion have to do with this??? We're supposedly
sharing viewpoints and the few facts we can assembly that support our
viewpoint. Since I am absolutely not religious, all you are doing is using a
greasy attempt to inject an irrelevant argument into the mix.
>Why should your position on aborting
>a severely retarded fetus be taken as something that should happen
>when the important fetus is yet to be born to the valueless mother!
>Which again many religious people - the final authority support!
>
Ah... now we have the root of your argument. You're in support of
eugenics. Making sure we only have a "super-race" of off-spring. Oh...
wait... wasn't that plan already tried in the 1940s somewhere in
Europe??? How'd that go for you?
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