Abortion is basically stopping the life of a baby before he/she is born..so what if we decided the opposite...

Question

What if society decided we wanted to pass laws to give people to option to end some ones life after a certan age? How would feel about that? Let's say 80? Here is the scenerio...A man lives in a rest home at 85 years old and the children of this man do not want to support and care for this man anymore...so they decide to have this man killed....Think this is crazy??? Given a few this years and this may indeed be a reality.

Answer 1

I expect that will be accepted practice in the not too distant future...scary.....I have a client in Holland who's mother was euthanized at a elderly age....she was very ill, but my client says that her mothers wishes were to die naturally.......

I also lost someone I know to DR. Kevorkian (sp?)

Also partial berth Abortion is legal in some states....If you do not know what that horror is, take some time to look it up.

Answer 2

great question- wow- the excuses that I have heard today about why abortion is ok-
"A fetus is not human"
"A fetus does not have life, until birth"
"A unborn child does not have life"
"A woman has the choice to abort- it is her body"
"A birth certificate is issued, not a conception certificate"

You know something- if a condor egg is destroyed by anyone and caught, they are fined for killing the condor, being developed. So if a condor who has not been given birth yet, is worth there being a fine for destroying, how about that baby, that was created in the image of God.
The woman who has the choice to do with her body what she chooses- THERE ARE 2 BODIES involved here. Have you seen an ultrasound of an unborn baby- there is a heart beating- non-living creatures- have no heart beat.

About your question- I am afraid that choice will become true at any age. Either the choice of the one dying or the choice of the family. Sad state of affairs here.
Why don't we stop pretending and say what abortion is- the murder of an unborn child- unborn does not mean no life.

Answer 3

I've known and seen several of the very old, and it's actually not so crazy of an option -- IF the old person wants to die.

Fetuses are potential humans, and don't get the choice of deciding if they want to be or not, and I find that much, much sadder. I can understand some of the reasons for abortion, but it's not an option I'd want to take.

However, I can see wanting to end my life if I was just costing my family money and laying in pain in a lonely rest home. I don't think the family will ever be allowed to kill someone against his/her will, though.

Answer 4

Yeah right.

The difference is that while an embryo has the potential to grow into a full human, it doesn't have the consciousness yet. Few people would hesitate to pull the plug on a brain damaged vegetable - we don't even refer to those people as human - they're "vegetables", but they still have a heart, lungs, hands, feet and everything else.
But obviously, there is a difference between those and fully functioning humans.

But I do think that old people should have their drivers licences taken away when they hit, say 90.

Answer 5

This is typical infantile christian logic, using hypothetical and inflamitory rhetoric to make a hollow point..

If there were a severe lack of people in the world, where greater numbers would be critical to the survival of our species and the environment, there may be a case to avoid abortion, but the opposite is true.
The world population has historically doubled every 40 yrs since the industrial revolution, and is expected to double again with the next 50 yrs.. Considering there are already far too many people in the world, and the millions of orphans that need a good home, your postion is even mopre ridiculous than your little religiously insipred infantile mind can fathom..

Answer 6

if it was popped out "now" would it have a good chance of surviving in a natural setting? without extreme modern-science-enabled measures?

if yes, then it shouldn't be able to be aborted, and should be considered a human life.

if no, then its not a human, let alone a person.

if its not yet in actuality a viable baby, (as in, survived the immediate trauma of being brought into the world, and is living in a natural manner outside of the womb) then it is not a person yet. once it is alive and viable, living naturally outside of the womb, then it has "full rights" as a person.

thats how it should be.

its relatively definable, its spiritually accurate and appropriate, and its compassionate in all the right ways, without being extreme.

Answer 7

Some places when a person is considered more of a burden than they are worth, they are sent away to perish, from what I understand they expect and accept it. I don't judge other people's cultures.

However, I do believe that if a person chooses to end their own life due to illness or old age, they should be allowed to make that informed decision for themselves.

Besides, abortion is the destruction of an unviable (outside the womb) fetus. Ending the existance of a parasitic being living within ones body which could not survive on it's own and ordering the killing of an adult who could live on their own are two totally different things.

Answer 8

Tell you what, here is a solution. Most abortions are either the result of teen age rapes or the mother is so destitute she can't afford the kid, or perhaps a combination of both. He's a solution, take all those unborn fetus' and put them into all you women that are pro life. How many takers do you think we'll have? I would bet it will be a sum total of none.

Answer 9

well, if every pro- lifer would adopt the children that are already in the foster system then i could agree with the send them to an orphinage.

however orphan children do not have a very good life. many are abused. and after the infant state nobody wants them. they live untill they are 18 in an orphinage, and then get dumped on the streets to try and scrape out a living for themselves.

why don't Christians start advocating BIRTH CONTROL.

you know that teens are going to have sex. it is the time when their bodies start telling them to. you know that you cannot stop them. so why not educate them and promote birth control? stop it before it becomes a problem....but NOOOOO we cannot have that that would mean that sex was ok to have. andall that rubbish...
live in ignorance and deal with the consequences.

make abortion illegal, and it will just happen in a back alley with a coat hanger. then your daughter will be dead in an alley somewhere because she was too afraid to tell you that she made a mistake. and nobody will be able to trce the "Doctor" that did it to her...

Answer 10

Sigh.
Ok, here's a hypothetical for you. Abortion is illegal-no woman can have one under any circumstances. Welfare right now is a faulty system that doesn't work very well and many people (read right wing/republican/christians) think it should be gotten rid of completely. So now we have a ton of single mothers who have no money or support whatsoever. They could put their kids up for adoption, but where are all those new parents coming from? Why do we still have so many kids in foster care without homes? Have you adopted?
So now we have poor mothers with kids, no money, no education, raising more people in the same circumstances-so they deal drugs, or prostitute themselves to feed their children. Then the children grow up, the oldest son starts dealing drugs. Wow-he can actually help bring money in now! But he gets addicted to meth/crack/whatever. So, to deal with his addiction he steals. Then he mugs people and one time it goes very badly and he kills someone.
He is convicted and the same right wing people who were outraged that he should not be aborted, now clamor for the death penalty.


Please fix the system first so that all of these children have a fighting chance before you push your beliefs into a secular institution like government.