An unsettling quote regarding abortion, what do you think?

Question

"Pro-lifers should just mind their own business already and worry about more important matters as opposed to obsessing over insignificant embryos and fetuses."

I don't care whether you're pro life or pro choice, but to use the word insignificant when refering to embryos and fetuses seems wrong. If they are so insignificant why do we spend billions of dollars each year in prenatal care?
I ask this respectfully and without hate or judgement, I just want to have an open discussion.

Answer 1

your not alone, and your not the only one that finds wording on both sides , non sensical, to mean spirited...i,m a minister myself, and have found the whole subject confusing to anyone outside the medical,regious, or scientic communities at large...and even then as with global warming and so many over mysteries before us....every side claims the other,s anything from wrong to mis-informed , to lieing.... i,m a universalist minister, in teaching and in practice, i believe we must all make choices in our lives, and in the lives of others on a daily basis, many without even knowing we have...each of us is different, and unique...each has thier own life, and reasons for the things they do, or just find them selves doing...and all these choices are best left up to the individual whos making them, not those who speak the loudest around them...i look at the world we live in, and i find it very hard to be pro or con in this issue, i don,t believe we need laws for, or against it...it is an ( as i stated. only between the mother, possible child, and the lives directly involved, and what you believe to be the right action...i leave out god , intentionally, because , god as i know him is always with you ...in all you do that pleases him, or displeases him..there is nothing insignificant about a fetus, ask the girl or woman, whos, debating with herself on what is the right thing to do, for herself and a possible child...as with many things in life, it would be wonderful to have king solomons wisdom, but i don,t see and correct answer coming soon, and in the mean time both sides, as in many things will have fanatics who themslves need help, but don,t know it...well you asked for an open discussion...thats about all i have at the moment, keep asking ,seeking all you think is right...

Answer 2

I definitely think that they should have left out "insignificant." I also think that they should probably have left out "embryo" as an embryo can't really be aborted, it can only be prevented from implanting by the morning after pill which isn't generally considered an abortion (an embryo becomes a fetus when it implants in the uterus).

While I absolutely think it should be the women's choice to have an abortion, it's not something that should be taken lightly, or reduced to an insignificant decision. It's something that can haunt people for the rest of their lives. Deciding to abort a fetus or to carry it to term can be one of the most important decisions of someone's life. And as such, it's not one that the government, or pro-life activists, or anyone else should get to make for them. No one should have such a major decision in their life be determined by someone else's conception of morality.

Answer 3

I feel that if my mother had aborted me and my little sister, she would have had a much better life and would not have been raising kids at 60. Since I have no recollection of being in the womb (thank god) I feel I was insignificant. Prenatal care is the method for taking an insignificant embryo and bringing it into a healthy significant life.

Answer 4

this is worded completely wrong... its not an insignificant embryo when a woman wants to get pregnant and gets that news from her doctor. Its the best news and experience in her life.. to call it insignificant is saying that nature made us for nothing.

Answer 5

I too think it could have been worded a little better, the use of the word 'insignificant' is not a good choice when a women has a very big decision to make anyway.

Answer 6

Interesting question, I agree that use of the word 'insignificant' is wrong. Significance is relative I suppose, it all depends on whether it is a 'wanted' child. If the woman wants her baby then it becomes significant and warrants care and protection. It's not exactly fair, but we must remember that we all justify our beliefs in a way that allows us to live with ourselves and sleep at night.

Answer 7

You're right Katie, for anyone wanting their baby, nothing seems as important as a healthy pregnancy. If someone is pregnant and not wanting the baby, I can understand that it would be a big deal to figure out what to do. I don't see how it be taken too lightly.

I am concerned, too, that many people think that fetuses can be harvested to make "products" to make sick people well . It is hard to think of a potential human life as a "cell line" for experimentation.

Answer 8

obviously the person who said this is trying to skirt and belittle the issue of what there talking about. if you said to them, your right, we are going to bring these fetus to term, put them in a government camp, and if we don't see them as a prodigy or gift to society by the time their 17.5 year of age we'll eliminate them then, they were insignificant, sort of like throw-aways from the start. see what they say. there is always the dangerous part where they just may say, "that's a great idea".

Answer 9

Yes, they should have left out the word "insignificant".

Most sensible people don't use that word. I don't and I am Pro-choice.

Answer 10

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