RE: Abortion poll
June 11, 2022 at 6:05 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2022 at 6:09 am by bennyboy.)
This poll is hard for me to answer, because I'm split between three choices:
1) Legal up to about 22 weeks (24 seems slightly pushing it to me), which I understand is a safe bet for the fetus not yet being sentient or having the capacity to feel pain. Before that, I don't see that it's a person by any meaningful definition of the word.
2) Legal up to about 2 years, which sounds barbaric, but until the State has a vested interest in a child (like paying for daycare and teachers), I'm not sure by what criteria a social contract has been established. This kind of killing is not my thing, but I'm also vegetarian, so. . . is a 2 year-old really more of a person than say a monkey or a well-trained dolphin?
3) Legal always, at all ages, but only by the parents (I brought you into this world, and I'll take you out). There are too many people getting in the damned way all the time, what do I care about a few honor killings for the irredeemables?
1) Legal up to about 22 weeks (24 seems slightly pushing it to me), which I understand is a safe bet for the fetus not yet being sentient or having the capacity to feel pain. Before that, I don't see that it's a person by any meaningful definition of the word.
2) Legal up to about 2 years, which sounds barbaric, but until the State has a vested interest in a child (like paying for daycare and teachers), I'm not sure by what criteria a social contract has been established. This kind of killing is not my thing, but I'm also vegetarian, so. . . is a 2 year-old really more of a person than say a monkey or a well-trained dolphin?
3) Legal always, at all ages, but only by the parents (I brought you into this world, and I'll take you out). There are too many people getting in the damned way all the time, what do I care about a few honor killings for the irredeemables?
