SCOTUS Tells Anti-Abortion Nuts To Go Fuck Themselves

[LadyForCamus]

Not any less personal than you telling Teresa to keep her legs closed.

OK. As I said, when a person brings up a personal issue, that issue is then fair game for the discussion. I apply that principle consistently. You wield it selectively.

Did you really expect respectful sympathy and empathy for your little story after talking to people here like that?

No. Likewise, Tres shouldn't have expected her comment to be off-bounds because it was personal. Further, there were many ways she could have phrased that same sentiment in general terms without saying "my uterus."

You don't get to make an unassailable statement by making it personal. You don't accept that from opponents, yet you try to wield it as a weapon in your favor.

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You don’t even know What my position is on abortion so, what are you talking about?  I disagree with about 99% of my fellow atheists on the subject.

OK, what's your position? Do you agree that abortion is murder?

I’m sure we’re going to disagree on the details, but yeah, I think at a certain point in gestation it becomes immoral to abort.  I’m not sure where that line should be drawn, but I think it’s a discussion definitely worth having.  I believe it is morally wrong, for example, for a woman to walk into a clinic at 20 weeks pregnant and ask for an abortion simply because she doesn’t want the baby. Now, I know that most late term abortions aren’t for that reason, and we should make exceptions for instances  where the fetus is no longer viable or the mother’s life is in immediate danger, but I would support 20 week bans that fall outside of those circumstances.  At 20 weeks we are no longer talking about a microscopic ball of undifferentiated cells.  We are talking about a living creature with a developing central nervous system that can hear, taste, feel anxiety and comfort, and possibly (I know it’s disputed) feel pain.  Just because a living thing isn’t fully conscious doesn’t mean it’s always morally right to end its life.  I think most of us would say it’s immoral to euthanize, say, a pet hamster just because you didn’t want it anymore and it became an inconvenience.  Why should anyone be allowed to treat a human baby that way?