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The Never-Ending and Quite Exasperating Debate We All Know of
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RE: The Never-Ending and Quite Exasperating Debate We All Know of
(April 10, 2024 at 11:50 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: Can there be no bipartisan compromise to this whole issue that takes into account the logical aspects of each opposing party and then ends up with a legal solution that works as a tool to promote human life and wellbeing?

Unlikely. Pro-Life contends that life begins at conception and that terminating the pregnancy at any time is murder. Pro-Choice contends that becoming a human is a process with no simple demarkation points and that abortion should be permissible at least up to a certain cut-off point if not entirely. You might note the lack of middle ground.

Several problems with your approach include:

- Having a bunch of old white men determine what women's rights should be. Again.

- Using religion in the determination. It has a 3000 year track record of failing dismally at health and human rights, so why would you ever consider using it?

- You propose no useful criteria for establishing a cut-off that would be meaningful to a secular society. Establishing arbitrary cut-offs is just going to throw fuel on an already nasty fire.

You might want to use the following as guidelines:

- Most developed nations allow abortion of some form and the few notable exceptions are all deeply religious. Yes, we're looking at you Poland. This debate was settled by the rest of the developed world and persists only in a few zealous hold-outs like the USA.

- One of the most distinctive attributes of what makes a human a human is our brain, specifically our prefrontal cortex. This is where the bulk of your thinking gets done and where the personality that makes you a person originates. This region of the brain doesn't begin development until late in the second trimester, develops the bulk of its function after birth, between 3 and 18 months, and continues developing into your twenties. This is why a newborn infant is largely a ball of squalling instincts. Using this as a guidepost I would have no problem with abortions up to the end of the second trimester and would need a mighty persuasive reason to ban them in the third trimester.

All that pretty much leaves us back where we stated. Get your old white man dogma off of women's bodies.
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RE: The Never-Ending and Quite Exasperating Debate We All Know of - by Paleophyte - June 2, 2024 at 11:40 pm

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