29th January 2003, 7:56 PM
Quote:Anyway, I was hoping to hear a solid stance on partial-birth abortions from you, instead you dance around the issue. There are MANY people, like myself to some extent, that do not want a total ban on abortion, but DO for partial-birth abortions. Partial-birth abortions are just disgusting, gouging a hole in a baby's head and sucking it's brains through a vacuum, how lovely. If, by the third trimester, you can't make up your friggin mind on whether you want to raise a kid or not, YOU need your brains sucked out with a vacuum, not the innocent life you carry because you screw around without thinking first.
Why should the method matter for a living creature that's barely aware? While that method may seem "monstrous", who's to say how much this semi-conscious fetus is suffering? I'm all for finding a better method, but this one sure sounds less painful than a woman bearing a child and leaving it in a dumpster, or drowning it in the backyard. The only reason you don't like the idea of this is because you have a weak stomach, which isn't the issue.
On a matter like this, its the principal that counts. Why should a child be brought into this world as a mistake, without the sufficient love and tender care of 2, loving parents/guardians? I forget the exact statistic, but somewhere in psychology, I heard that the two most common elements in criminals was 1) S/he wasn't held by his/her mother; 2) S/he didn't have a father figure. If you ask me, since we can stop this before a human is formed from the developing cells, we should take advantage of it. Therein rises the whole tedious argument of "what is a human?" blah blah blah...
Quote:Did you know that abortion rates are decreasing every year? Now that 3D ultrasounds are possible, mothers-to-be see not a clump of lifeless cells but a forming human being in their womb... and more and more they're deciding not to abort children.
Interesting observation, and I'd also like to believe so... but how do you know that the one correlates with the other for a fact? Do you think it also could do with the groups or rabid anti-abortion protesters putting the pregnant mother through even a worst time than she's already having? Or how about the multiple cases of the murders of doctors running abortion clinics (not as rampant a problem I'm assuming, but present nonetheless)?