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Originally Posted by Pyro Kitten <3
Well, I for one am not for abortion or against it. [...]it's the person's choice. If they choose to have an abortion then let them. Nothing should stop them, really. |
You're for it. Your standpoint maintains that it is permissible.
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Originally Posted by Sugaroxxx However, there are a few cases in which I am left on the fence. For example, if a girl was raped by say, a family member (or by anyone, for that matter) and became pregnant. Although this doesn't change the fact that the being inside of her is alive and human, and that killing it would be murder, it's a bit different. I mean, there's a good change that it's not as if the girl went out and engaged in careless, unprotected sex knowing that if she got pregnant she could use abortion as a quick-fix. I know that this might not be true in all cases, but in the situation of rape I do see abortion as a partially justifiable possibility. |
Well, for one, a girl could get away with claiming to be raped in most states, Texas specifically (the policy is that anyone who has sex with an "underage" teenage girl does so without her legal consent). I don't think abortions are permissible even as a result of rape, because the abortion doesn't "fix" the rape, it "fixes" the pregnancy. The poor victim of the rape will still have been raped, and a child still will have died. Two wrongs don't make a right, as the saying goes.
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I'm going to say that I am on the fence as far as agreeing or disagreeing with abortion.
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"The greatest sin is apathy."