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I readily admit that abortion is morally wrong. I think most women will regret having one. However, I don't feel comfortable pushing my views of what is morally right on someone if I'm not willing to do something about it. How can I tell some woman I know nothing about that she can't have an abortion when I myself am willing to do nothing of consequence to help take care of the baby?

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I refer to my pevious post: Unless you are willing to adopt someone's four year-old child, do you feel comfortable telling the parents not to kill it? If you think a fetus automatically has less rights than a child that has already been born, then you should use that argument instead.


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Do you feel morally superior just because you want to make abortion illegal?

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I have never said abortion should be made illegal, I said that your argument for why it should remain legal was bad.


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Would you sleep easier at night if abortion were illegal, while thousands of women everyday were giving themselves abortions with coat hangers? Or going to illegal clinics?

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This is completely irrelevant - the only thing that matters is whether a fetus has any rights. If it does (I'm not clear what I think about this myself), it shouldn't matter if some people may hurt themselves in the proccess of trying to violate those rights.


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Get real, bro. This [censored] is going to happen whether abortion is legal or not. Take a step down off your moral high horse and drink a cup of reality.

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I just questioned the way you made your argument, you should stop making unsupported conclusions.


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Furthermore, how many "rights" is this child going to have if you force some woman on welfare or some women making $5 an hour to have a baby she doesn't want? Is that child going to be loved?

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Again, this applies to the same extent with a child that has already been born. If life as an unwanted child is so hard, do you support euthanasia?


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I see in your "pro-life" view a desire to "punish" the mother for her "irresponsiblity." Personally, I don't really care to punish anyone for having sex. It's natural and everyone wants to do it.

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Does forcing parents to care for their offspring always amount to 'punishing them for having sex'? If so, you must really hate the fact that deadbeat dads might be forced to pay child support. Also, I find it strange that a liberal (?) would use the fact that something is natural as an argument, is abortion 'natural'?


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You, like most pro-lifers, don't give a rat's about the baby. You mostly care about making sure the mother is properly punished by forcing her to keep the kid.
If you actually care about that "life," step up to the plate and offer to adopt one of these potential abortees. Then your "pro-life" views will be something more than empty rhetoric.

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And you're telling me to get off my high horse. I again refer to my original question: I have no intention of ever adopting any child whatsoever, does that make my opposition to parents killing their eight year-olds empty rhetoric? If not, why?