What I wrote is a bit extreme, even for me? :p I mean, really, "parasite?" Hehe.
I do lean in that general direction, but the "when does it become a child" question makes it all fuzzy.
I was setting up my real argument, and what it comes down to is only that the subject is rather undebatable. There just isn't a middle ground. Instead, there are people who believe very strongly in one side or the other, and it really comes down to nothing more than a belief -- as you and I demonstrated up there :) What is a child? That's the question at the heart of it all.
My more honest opinion is that the whole thing is a deeply personal decision that I think the hypothetical woman needs to figure out on her own, without my input. I don't know what I'd do if I were in her place (hypothetically!), so I'm not qualified to offer hypothetical advice. It would be very selfish of her to carry the child nearly to term and then abort it (again, in my opinion), but how long is too long?
I agree with the commenter below about adoption, but because pregnancy isn't an easy thing where you just wait nine months and out pops a baby, one should take her own health into consideration as well.
The abortion debate has reached that point where it's talked about more than it's actually done, kind of like Puritans and sex.
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Re: Hypothetically, of course
Date: 2006-05-15 04:17 pm (UTC)From:What I wrote is a bit extreme, even for me? :p I mean, really, "parasite?" Hehe.
I do lean in that general direction, but the "when does it become a child" question makes it all fuzzy.
I was setting up my real argument, and what it comes down to is only that the subject is rather undebatable. There just isn't a middle ground. Instead, there are people who believe very strongly in one side or the other, and it really comes down to nothing more than a belief -- as you and I demonstrated up there :) What is a child? That's the question at the heart of it all.
My more honest opinion is that the whole thing is a deeply personal decision that I think the hypothetical woman needs to figure out on her own, without my input. I don't know what I'd do if I were in her place (hypothetically!), so I'm not qualified to offer hypothetical advice. It would be very selfish of her to carry the child nearly to term and then abort it (again, in my opinion), but how long is too long?
I agree with the commenter below about adoption, but because pregnancy isn't an easy thing where you just wait nine months and out pops a baby, one should take her own health into consideration as well.
The abortion debate has reached that point where it's talked about more than it's actually done, kind of like Puritans and sex.