Is Abortion Morally Equivalent to Murdering Someone?

[웃 910]

what part of "murder is murder" did you not understand?

On a scale of 1 to 100 murder is 100 and abortion is a 12...lying to someone is an 11

[Danno 1,228]

because if it were to come out on its own at 2.5 months it would not be alive

And at one time, to be on it's own at 6 months, it would not survive.

Do we keep adjusting our dateline of when protection is granted.... according to the latest (or available) medical advances?

[^_^ 5,021]

On a scale of 1 to 100 murder is 100 and abortion is a 12...lying to someone is an 11

but lying to yo momma is a 50. just wrong!

[sandinista! 1,816]

True enough. I don't have an answer to that beyond pointing out that if we give every fertilized mass of cells the dignity of being human, lots of women with ectopics will die because we won't be able to treat them anymore.

While some nuts out there advocate for zero tolerance across the board, there are plenty of people out there who find abortion morally repugnant, but unhesitatingly support saving a woman's life in light of ectopic pregnancy, and other obstetrical emergencies.

[Wayne and Claudia 40]

ok so you don't really know what an ectopic is.

right, sorry.

it's outside of the uterus...since you were just repeating talking points. the human body has natural ways of dealing with things and what comes about is natural. It's like feeding the bears...it's cute to feed them and not see them starve but nature has to have it's way.

[^_^ 5,021]

... there are plenty of people out there who find abortion morally repugnant, but unhesitatingly support saving a woman's life in light of ectopic pregnancy, and other obstetrical emergencies.

since you believe the zygote (or whatever its called at that point) is human and this human life can be taken to protect the life of another?

what other human lives are you willing to sacrifice? are you some kind of monster?

it's outside of the uterus...since you were just repeating talking points. the human body has natural ways of dealing with things and what comes about is natural. It's like feeding the bears...it's cute to feed them and not see them starve but nature has to have it's way.

the natural way of dealing with an ectopic pregnancy is often death of the mother.

you are beyond ridiculous.

[웃 910]

I agree with Obama on this issue:

[Amby 490]

it's outside of the uterus...since you were just repeating talking points. the human body has natural ways of dealing with things and what comes about is natural. It's like feeding the bears...it's cute to feed them and not see them starve but nature has to have it's way.

[Amby 490]

I declare anyone who knows nothing about basic anatomy is not allowed to give their opinion

[Sofiyya 1,687]

While some nuts out there advocate for zero tolerance across the board, there are plenty of people out there who find abortion morally repugnant, but unhesitatingly support saving a woman's life in light of ectopic pregnancy, and other obstetrical emergencies.

I'm all for that exemption. The embryo will die anyway, no need to take the woman with it.

[faust-yusov 103]

what part of "murder is murder" did you not understand?

Probably its irrelevance as a trite, tautological moral plateau.

[The_Dude 1,142]

I declare anyone who knows nothing about basic anatomy is not allowed to give their opinion

[Peikko 1,575]

Murder is a human invention.

Back to the question of the morning after pill, if you believe that the point of inception is the point at which a human life begins, the morning after pill is potentially a murder weapon.

[chri'stina 190]

I have not yet read past this quoted question from Steven earlier, seems I have many pages to catch up on now. :\ If my answer is somehow totally different from what's being talked about at the moment, sorry. Just answering his Q.

Stina, would you support putting a woman to death (capital punishment) for having an abortion? For the sake of an argument, let's say she has the abortion within the first 6 weeks of conception, and she is tried, found guilty and sentenced to death, you would support that?

The first thing I'd say is that I don't support the death penalty for every murder anyway. And to answer the question, no.

[chri'stina 190]

I declare anyone who knows nothing about basic anatomy is not allowed to give their opinion

Some people may just strongly believe that no matter what, they will not terminate a pregnancy no matter where it implanted. They can know anatomy but still not think they are to interfere with it at all.

I can understand that, because it is a very serious decision to end one life to save another. If something like that were to happen to me and there was no chance of the pregnancy surviving while also causing me potentially deadly internal bleeding, I would be heart broken to end that life. It's nothing to take lightheartedly, to me.