If abortion was murder.....?

Question

If an uninvited person went onto your property, you are allowed to kill him/her. So isn't a unwanted baby kinda the same thing or uninvited baby?

Answer 1

That's not a very good argument for the pro-choice position - not even that great in the case of rape, since the baby itself is not the "intruder" and in other cases there was consent to sex on the part of the mother.

The basic premise of pro-choice is that the baby is part of the woman's body until birth, and the woman (with her doctor) should have the exclusive right to make decisions about her own body and her own health.

Now personally, while I'm pro-choice, I have a moral issue with terminating a healthy, viable fetus, and that would be a fetus without major defects from around 22 weeks and forward - except if the life of the mother is in danger.

Answer 2

This baby never voluntarily came onto anyone's property. The woman spread her legs and the man stuck it in, pure and simple. It's not the baby's fault, s/he didn't ask to be made. If you play, you pay, pure and simple. Why can't people have the balls to be responsible for their own behavior!?!?

Abortion is murder, no ifs ands or butts about it. In the case where the mother's life is in jeopardy by pregnancy, then abortion is the better of two evils, so it's justified. However, most people use abortion as a means of birth control. People wanna f*ck with no consequences, then they blame it on the birth control. "But the rubber broke!" COME ON, rubbers break all the time. NO form of birth control is foolproof, except for abstinence.

Abortion is selfishness to the point of death. The only difference between a baby who was born and a baby who was aborted is whether or not the parent/s, for whatever reason/s, wanted that child. I don't care if you're poor and living on welfare, even that person is wrong for aborting. If you can't take care of a baby, KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED!!! KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS!!! If you get prego anyway, never ever rob the child of its RIGHT TO LIFE. If you can't afford the baby in the tummy, then there is always adoption. If you don't wanna be forever separated from your baby, there is open adoption. There are ALWAYS options, why do people have to resort to killing? BECAUSE THEY ARE SELFISH AND INCALCULABLY STUPID!

Answer 3

I don't think the comparison applies. Unless you live in Texas, killing someone for trespassing is still murder. A trespasser also has the intent of being somewhere he is not supposed to be whereas a fetus is not where it is as a result of its own free will. The comparison might apply if a third person picked up someone and threw them onto your property. I doubt the law would consider that person a trespasser.

Abortion is a difficult question and there just are not any other situations that are similar enough for us to use as a means of simplifying the issue.

Answer 4

Yes, but an unborn baby was definitely invited, don't you agree? I mean, the mother engaged in an activity that we've known for ooohhhh - BILLIONS of years - causes pregnancy. So, she's surprised she's pregnant?

Abortion is not morally acceptable, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the baby's conception. This includes the age of the mother, whether the sex was rape or consensual, whether the baby is imperfect, or whether the mother's life is in danger, bla bla bla bla.......

It all comes down to this; an unborn baby is a living human being, and as such, has an inalienable right to life. Any other single human being has no right to make a judgment as to whether another human being will continue to live. Whose right is it to determine whether a life will be "good enough" to be lived by another person? Once we identify the genetic marker for homosexuality, should we abort all unborn babies who show it, to "spare them a hard life"? Of course not! We, as a moral and just society, choose to address problems instead of getting rid of the PEOPLE who are affected by the problem, don't we?

I don't need to invoke religion into my argument, although I am a Christian. Killing another human being is always wrong, whether you are a Christian or an Atheist; a Republican or a Democrat.

All of the exceptions and hypotheticals and justifications and rationalizations for abortion are meaningless to anyone who lives their life by the universal principle that values human life, no matter how inconvenient that life may be to another person.

Answer 5

By the analogy of the question then yes abortion would be murder. If you don't a person in your property, then you don't invite them. Having sex without any birth control is like sending an open invitation.
If you don't want a person on your property than you don't invite. If you don't want to get pregnant either use birth control or don't have sex. Otherwise it's an invitation.

Answer 6

The only way that baby would be uninvited is if one is raped. Otherwise, it is the woman's choice to get pregnant. Having sex doesn't lead to burglary, but it surely leads to pregnancy. Abortion is murder, and no justification can contradict such facts

Answer 7

Although your analogy is laughable, tragically so, I will not agree with your major premise. I do not consider abortion murder. If we were to stop playing with words a fetus is not a human being, it is not an "unborn child" any more than a seed is a flower.
Most modern societies and some not so modern, accept abortion as the lesser of two evils. Unless of course they are theocracies.
The women of Catholic Ireland go to England to get their abortions as the rich women in the USA would do if it was not legal here. Now, the poor ones would get the back alley coat hanger operation as they used to. Have your choice.

Answer 8

YES abortion is a kind of murder. It is an act of inhumanity .If you are so strict about having babies the you got to be careful enough at the time of sex to take precautionary measures.

Answer 9

"If abortion was murder..." Lol.

Wake up buddy. I got news for you. It is.

I find it very funny that the first people to be in favor of abortion are the first ones to be in favor of banning smoking. They're both personal choices which can kill.

Just more hypocrisy.

Answer 10

I agree with Greg H's answer, up to where he describes abortion as a complicated issue.

Abortion is the killing of an innocent human being. There are no issues that can refute this fact. That makes it murder.