How does one reconcile abortion and being antiwar?

Question

Basically, how can some of our friends on the left be all for abortion but not like war? I tend to think I am more of a liberal in that I did people and think people should be free to make their own choices in life. I just can’t get past the blatant hypocrisy of endorsing abortion while screaming peace. The average global monthly abortion rate is about a million; the total over the last 80 years is about 900,000,000. Add up every war, and plague and we don’t even get close to that number. Tell me why peace people would support abortion.

That is not supposed to be I did people, that should be I dig people, meaning I like people. It is true that I did people but anything pertaining to that I will save for a future question.

Oh, that’s right, I forgot our more enlightened contemporaries do not see the unborn child as a human.

Answer 1

You can't. They are both horrible things. The left has to continue to mislead on the nature of the unborn so it is less than human and not worth protecting.............

Answer 2

Abortion is a wanted medical procedure. Wars are frequently fought by or with people who don't want them.
Civilian casualties, bombed out cities, drafted men, great economic loss, famines are all off shoots of wars.
Abortion is a private decision usually made with considerable thought as to what is best for the people involved. Making it illegal as it was in the past, only led to women being physically damaged and frequently dying in a way that was totally preventable. Or they would get sterile from the infections from abortions done in unsanitary conditions. When it was illegal, it was still done, and you lost not just the fetus, but the mother too. Now its true that you do lose the fetus, but the woman stays healthy and can choose to have a child at another time, like after marriage, or when shes out of school or , the family can afford it.
Ideally, we would teach birth control early on and make it available at the onset of menses. Abstinence isn't viable for sexually active people, and its been proven pretty useless, its time to face reality, teach morals at home and church, but teach facts at schools.

Answer 3

Hmm. How about this:

Is it the same kind of crime to steal a ticket to a lottery that has not yet occurred where a million dollars is given out as it is to steal a million dollars from a person?

A lottery ticket is POTENTIAL money. The law, as it is now, would tend to recognize its value not as what it MIGHT be, but as what it IS.

The same is true for an embryo. It is NOT a person. It may very well become one. Or it may be stillborn. We don't know and never will unless things run their course.

If you begin to treat things as they MIGHT be, then only chaos can ensue. I could kill people because they might have threatened me some time in the future, I could seize property because some day it might be owed to me. And I could claim diplomatic immunity from prosecution... who knows? Maybe some day it will be true.

THAT is the difference between abortion and murder. They are NOT the same except in the hazy future of potential.

Answer 4

It's not hypocrisy to me. I don't consider abortion up to the 2nd trimester murder. A life has to be viable to be considered alive. Until it is viable, it is a parasite. And while I would never have an abortion, I also don't feel I have the right to make that choice for anyone else. It's a very personal thing, abortion. And the government should keep their nose out of it. A woman will have to live with her decision to have an abortion the rest of her life. She shouldn't also have to resort to botched back alley abortions which kill or maim her. It about freedom.

Answer 5

If you think about the numbers and not the people it makes perfect sense. Abortion saves the economy billions by less children to feed, educate and support via our social welfare system.

War, on the other hand is very expensive. With war there is rarely a return on your investment.

Abortion, prevents deficits.
War creates deficits.

Answer 6

I'm a liberal and I don't exactly LIKE abortion. Rather, I support a person's right to have complete autonomy over his/her own person. Also, I wouldn't have such a problem with this war if Bush had focused on going after the right person (bin Laden) instead of invading a country that was in no way involved in the attacks.

Answer 7

I'm pro-peace, anti-death penalty, and pro-choice. It's easy enough for me to explain, Hon: the rights of the MOTHER trumps the rights of a clump of cells.
I don't agree, however, with anything later than a first-trimester abortion, unless the woman will suffer for it or perhaps other extenuating circumstances.

Edit: Alphabet, Jim and William, it's great to see people of insight and intelligence answering this question! :)

Answer 8

cognitive dissonance abounds in life.
From my view, I find hypocracy in people who are anti-woman's right to choose because of their relgious views, who then seek to vote down ANY government supports for the
(quite frequently) needy child- from neonatalc are for the poor, services for the mentaily ill, mentally retarded, drug -dependent parents of the not-aborted-soon-to-become-a-child situations............
Most liberals are not 'anti-war' regarding world war II and Hitler's meglomania- they are anti-war in a 'preemptive strike for control of an oil region' kind of thing............
your analogy sees abortion as killing (which many don't agree) and makes the leap taht therefore any killing for any cause, under a flag for santioning, is ok??????????/////
We wage war in Iraq to:
1. control the oil that was going to be contra cted to russia , china and france when the santions were lifted.
2. profits for big oil
3. we need fear in the world for the weapons manufactures to sell their wares.
4.rofits for all the no bid contractors in Iraq
So you are saying if someone believes a woman has the right to choose not to continue a pregnancy to term ( she may have been raped, 14 years old, unfit to care for a child, poor, mentally ill, alone in the world, etc)
that should equate to killing innocent people in a foreing land for oil???????????

Answer 9

Dude, embryos are nothing more than cells before they are born. Having an abortion is like a surgery to remove a few cells from the body. It is perfectly fine.

I find it quite scary that you think war should be a part of the modern society. Wars are nothing but bloodbaths and do not belong in society.

Answer 10

I support a womans right to choose.
In the eyes of the law you're not a real person till you're 18.
I can't choose when a person becomes a person, that's up to the mother and father. Why would you force people to have babies they don't want?

Answer 11

Liberals don't endorse abortion,,just a woman's right to decide what to do with her body. War kills babies who their mothers gave birth to. Hypocrisy is GOP’s modus Operandi.