(April 2, 2013 at 8:25 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(April 2, 2013 at 8:05 pm)Joel Wrote: I don't believe all abortion should be legal/illegal, Statler.
I don't believe it should be a form of contraception. It should be used when babies are defective/terminally diseased or in rape cases. There may be more, but I don't have them on my mind right now.
Ok, but I still don’t see how you justify abortion in those cases by merely appealing to saving the life of the mother. The life of the mother argument seems to be something only tossed out by those in the pro-choice community as a red herring. The fact of the matter is that the overwhelming majority of the over 50 million abortions conducted in the U.S. were for contraceptive purposes. That’s the relevant issue at hand.
Yeah, and I don't support those cases.
I'm not saying that it should be done because of the mother's life: I'm saying that because it affects her life; it's her choice to make.
Again, I say, I don't support contraceptive abortions... I don't really support abortion at all - I don't like it. But it's not my choice to make and I can see that it's not fair - or morally right - to force a woman to have a child that she did not want (and had no control over - rape), endangers her life, or will birth a child with an extremely poor quality of life.