Is one's right to chose more important than another's right to life?

Question

In other words, is choice more important than life?

In the penal system, one’s choices are taken away before one’s life. It seems to me that life itself is more important than one’s ability to make choices.

Why do pro-choicer's reverse this hierarchy?

Answer 1

Because only one person is involved in a termination - the mother. The fetus is not viable outside the womb, and is not recognized as an individual.

Answer 2

Because, (all emotions aside, here), what we are talking about is essentially a parasitic relationship.
The changes that take place in the 9 months it takes until the developing fetus can live on it's own are profound. The pregnancy can cause a great deal of stress on the body. (When I had my kids, I fainted, got gestational diabetes both times, hemorrhaged uncontrollably for days that required hospitalization, and wound up with two C-sections.) The second C-Section the anesthesia didn't work right, it was the middle of the night and the doctor wanted to go home, so they shot my belly full of local anesthesia and went in anyway. I was bowed up in pain and they would NOT give me anything for pain until they took the baby out. Even then I felt every single stitch of every single layer.
It is my opinion that since what is required of the woman's body is so enormous, it is HER choice whether or not to let a bunch of poorly developed cells (in the very early stages), turn into offspring or not.
If women don't even have a right to decide what can and can't happen inside their own bodies, then what do they have a right to???

Answer 3

I truely believe that any choice you make has consequeces. most of us do go through life not always thinking before we act. And yes when it comes to taking anothers life on an impulse, i believe your life should be taken, the person in the situtation with you probably didnt have a choice, so why should the convicted. On the flip side, I donot believe anyone shouls have the right to abort a child. When your not able to have children you long to hold one, anyones child.. To take a life is not necessary when so many people like myself would, love to have your child and raise it as there own. The differece her is protecting the innocent and giving them a chance at life.

Answer 4

The right to life is more important. The women who scream about the "right to choose what I do with my own body" never admit that there is another body involved. A living body, another individual.

Answer 5

let's agree to disagree okay and next time you post a question like this again why don't you read all the other related questions there's probably over 500 maybe you'll find the answer your looking for instead of asking the same unanswerable question all the time

Answer 6

You believe what you want to believe, we will do the same...Learn, as we have, you will not change a mind with simple minded rhetoric like this