5th March 2010, 10:03 PM
Darunia Wrote:To argue this is the claim that US soliders in Afghanistan are wrong when they kill Taliban insurgents, and poultry farmers are wrong when they provide us with chicken.
This argument is not about all life. It's about abortion.
Abortion is wrong because is impedes, prevents, and kills, a human-in-the-making that would otherwise one day grow to adulthood.
What's the most interesting, though, is how abortion opponents "justify" opposing life and health of the mother exemptions... they seem to believe that it's better for someone to die or be badly hurt (perhaps irreprably) than be saved, because the only way to save them is to give them an abortion.
But it's not like most abortion opponents really care about that, it's only women dying after all and being anti-abortion is nothing if not extremely sexist (yes, some women are anti-abortion. But ever notice how the percentage is dramatically, dramatically lower than it is of men? It's harder for people directly affected by it to be anti-abortion... but it's not like a lot of men care).
Obviously religious reasons play a huge part, but even there I'd think there might be room for at least strong "life and health" exceptions in their horrible anti-abortion laws they keep trying to pass... but no, often not.
And of course, that's not even addressing the fact that if abortion was banned all that happens is it moves to the back alleys again, where the deathrates go way, way up. Considering what I said above about abortion opponents and women, though, obviously they do not care one bit about that.