If it is, then there is no issue. It would be no different than a person cutting off their own finger.
But if it isn't, then there is a whole separate set of issues that arise. Since a fetus is clearly a genetically distinct human, it clearly is not her, so the argument that it is "her body" does not apply.
The only option left is that she owns the fetus like she does a book, or a chair. Does the woman "own" the fetus like she does a chair, which she has a right to smash if she chooses? And when does her ownership right end?
Does a woman "own" the fetus because it depends on her for life? If that's the case, why are abortions for 1 year olds not legal? They depend on the mother just as much.
Or is it because she cannot transfer ownership and responsibility while it is a fetus, but she can when it is 1 year old? But what happens if no one wants the one year old? Does she retain the right of abortion?
2006-09-17 11:02:35 · 16 answers · asked by BrianthePigEatingInfidel 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
If only your mother believed in aborting you we would all be free of your moronic questions. Ugh!
2006-09-17 11:04:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 6⤋
You bring up a good point. The crux of the abortion debate is whether or not the fetus is a unique human being. If it is, there are almost no possible justifications for abortion. If it isn't, there are almost no possible justifications for prohibiting abortion.
Personally, I do not think the fetus is part of a woman's body. It's inside of a woman's body, and connected to it, but that does not make it a part of her body, anymore than a smaller conjoined twin is merely a part of the larger conjoined twin.
2006-09-17 11:10:32 · answer #2 · answered by timm1776 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The right-wingers behind this debate are still trying to live out the old 'go forth and multiply' business. It's an argument they want to use to try and make abortion illegal.
There were abortions before there were abortion clinics. They involved things like coathangers, vodka 'douches', and other more medieval methods, husbands causing abortions by abusing their wives, 'fun' stuff like that. Let's keep it in the clinics, where the woman might survive the process...ponder that one along the lines if one of your female relatives were to have been forcibly sexually assaulted, and came up pregnant. Would you want her to be able to have a legal abortion? I think the answer on that one is probably a 'yes'...
2006-09-17 11:13:30 · answer #3 · answered by gokart121 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
no madder how you try and rationalize it, abortion is the KILLING, MURDER, of a innocent baby. women do not have the right to kill. society in it oh so great wisdom ( actually it boils down to the economics of it. It is much less a burden on government to allow abortion than to support the life financially) at this time has legalized this desperate act of women who don't know how to be responsible ( and I am not talking about the victims of rape, that is a different issue )
2006-09-17 11:30:25 · answer #4 · answered by Work In Progress 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its another person. Therefore it IS a issue. If u abort a fetus, its like killing a walking, talking human being.
2006-09-17 11:22:58 · answer #5 · answered by maddywoo13 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No a fetus is an organism gestating inside the womans body. If youre trying to make a case that you should be granted the right to arbitrary abortion why cant we arbitrarily decide that some women have state sanctioned hysterectomy?
2006-09-17 11:06:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
It's not a tumor! IT's a human individual.....separate DNA, separate blood, own unique human in every way! Once you kill it, that person that was will never be ever again. You can't just have a 'do over' next time around after your abortion, your next child wasn't your first, most likely, nothing like your first who was once living, growing and thriving inside of you but was destroyed before birth....
2006-09-17 11:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Is the fetus a part of the woman's /mans body? Yes and no.
2006-09-17 11:06:19 · answer #8 · answered by DrB 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
These are the questions that liberals, "so-called" feminists, and Pro-choice proponents refuse to answer directly. They will spin the hell out of your question though. In fact so much so, the only thing you'll be sure of is their venom. Good points!
2006-09-17 11:22:41 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. US of A, Baby! 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A fetus is a genetically distince human in the same way that a sperm is a genetically distinct human.
"Is a sperm a part of a man's body? If it isn't, then he should not be allowed to let sperm die." Do you see how illogical that is?
2006-09-17 11:06:00 · answer #10 · answered by Evil Atheist Cannibal 2 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? -Isaiah 66:1
God ultimately owns everything and everybody. We are just lending them and we are responsible for the things God gives us. Cutting a baby out of your body and throwing in the trash is hardly what I would call taking care of something God gave you. Women who get abortions are no better than nazis and those mothers that wrap their babies in plastic to suffocate them and throw them in dumpsters.
2006-09-17 11:14:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋