How can people be so against abortion but yet want to terminate other endoparasites? A tapeworm is living so do you not believe in getting treatment to get rid of them?
If there is an unwanted child what is the difference between terminating that form of life or terminating other unwanted forms of endoparasites?
I don't understand pro-lifers because they are so wishy washy.
2006-08-14 07:02:13 · 17 answers · asked by Scully 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
People keep throwing out there about adoption. My partner was raped when she was 12 by her niece's father. She was forced to give birth because abortion was looked down upon in her community. The people who adopted it live right down the road from us and do you not think that is hard on her having to see something created from such trauma? Now, I might have been a little far fetched compairing a kid to a tapeworm but it was just an example. If someone is raped though I am sorry but I would view that as being a parasite.
2006-08-14 08:16:51 · update #1
They are wishy-washy aren't they? I mean they say one thing but then they say another, totally contradicting themselves. Do they even know what the hell they believe anymore? GEEZ, make it stop already. The government is also very stupid, they believe in controling everybody's lives. It's all about them and how to get richer. It's kind of like these people, doing everything they can to help the FDA make everybody sicker and not get better. Cancer patients get stuck with chemo therapy, I bet none of you knew that chemo is actually the killer not the cancer itself. So how can you people say that abortion is wrong, when your own government allows doctors to use chemo on patients with cancer when there is a cure, but they just don't want nobody to know that. Millions die and it's all their fault, so how can you be against abortion? The tapeworm, parasite thing totally makes sense if you just think about it.
2006-08-14 07:30:37 · answer #1 · answered by mat 4 · 2⤊ 5⤋
First and foremost true pro-lifers stress the greater value of human life, in all its stages of development, over that of other sentient beings because we believe that God imparted to human life a soul, which other animals do not share. Its this special divine significance that we believe humans to have that makes it a sin to destroy human life, whether it is in the womb by abortion, in the form of capital punishment, or as a means of assisted suicide.
Lets suppose you don’t buy the religious argument. Even from a logical standpoint the pro-life position seems pretty cogent. How can you draw a moral equivalence between a tapeworm, or other parasitic organism and that of a human fetus? A parasite cannot contribute to the betterment of mankind, while a human always has that potential. Just the mere possibility that a child, living in mother’s womb, could be the next Einstein, Beethoven, Gandhi or maybe you future best friend, should make you and everyone else hesitate to destroy any human being, and it should definitely dissuade us from making any comparison between that child and an organism that merely feeds off of its victim, but gives nothing back.
It’s sad that the sum of pro-choice rhetoric resorts to such poor analogies, just to excuse what they no deep in their hearts is a violation of morality, humanity, and reason. Its easier to relegate the importance of human life to that of a parasite, and therefore worthy of destruction, than take responsibility for the consequences of night of passion.
2006-08-14 08:00:56 · answer #2 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
The problem with the anti-choice side is that they have a very narrow view of pregnancy. They think that every woman who ends up pregnant should be ecstatic to be carrying life into the world regardless of how they ended up that way. They don't realize that not all women view their pregnant bodies this way. Some do view the fetus as a parasite because they can't handle a pregnancy for whatever reason. And yes many women are ecstatic when they become pregnant or later on will feel that way but the government can't deny the right to control our own body.
2006-08-14 07:31:13 · answer #3 · answered by Eleanor Rigby 2 · 4⤊ 4⤋
how in the world can you compare a tapeworm to a human life ---- there's no comparison here....
many unwanted children have been born and placed for adoption --- not to mention the number of moms who have changed their minds and kept the child they didn't want after they had given birth.
So many women or young girls who have had abortions go through their lives still dealing with the decision they made about aborting their baby..... I work in healthcare and I hear their sorrows -about abortions they had as a teenager or while in their early twenties.....abortion is a quick fix but there's a lifetime of sorrow/regret/guilt that goes with it.Most of the women have said to me that if they actually knew how it would affect their life they'd never of done it....
2006-08-14 07:24:41 · answer #4 · answered by jaimestar64cross 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I support the right for women to get an abortion, but this argument only makes the cause look bad. It's a common misconception that "pro-choice-ers" disregard human life, and your comments are only compounding that thought. Your suggestion is revolting.
2006-08-14 07:21:48 · answer #5 · answered by maguire1202 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Pro lifers do not equate human life with lower animal life... it pretty strait forward, Im sorry you can't tell the difference between a human and a tapeworm....
If you believe your life has equal value to a tapeworm them your self esteem must be horrible, i feel sorry for you!
Do you eat meat? if so do you eat human meat? If not, who gave you the right to judge that animal life is worth more then plant life you judgemental hatefilled veggiehating hypocrite
2006-08-14 07:09:04 · answer #6 · answered by TLJaguar 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I don't understand how an anti-lifer considers a tapeworm on an equal plane as a human being.
A tapeworm is a PARASITE.
A human baby is a HUMAN BEING.
I guess it's because the anti-life crowd thinks animals and parasites are more important than human life.
2006-08-14 07:54:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
You are comparing a human being, a baby growing in the womb to a tapeworm? Wow, you are too far gone to even have an intelligent conversation with.
2006-08-14 07:09:05 · answer #8 · answered by realsimonrulz 2 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Are you retarded? Or do you actually think "endoparasites" are of equal value to "an unwanted child." I don't think valuing human life is very "wishy washy."
2006-08-14 07:10:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
The killing of a human is murder. The killing of a tapeworm is not.
It is probably a good thing that selfish, evil people can kill their unborn children and get away with it. That way they will minimize their genetic contribution to the human race.
2006-08-14 07:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by campojoe 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋