RE: Abortion/Consciousness/Life
July 21, 2014 at 7:57 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2014 at 7:57 am by Dystopia.)
So my people I was wondering something about the whole pro-life pro-choice debate and I thought of something. Why do pro-lifers seem to use the argument of 'but it still should be allowed in cases of rape or malformation' to make themselves seem more open minded?
I though deeper about it and I came to the conclusion you are either pro-choice or pro-life, there's not much sense in making an exception merely for rape, after all, why is a child conceived trough non consented sex less valuable than any other? From the moment we consider a fetus, we have to consider all fetuses as equal by a matter of coherence. The same could be said for fetuses with deficiencies, why are they less valuable than a healthy fetus? According to the pro-life argument, since lives are valuable, you can't make these two last lives be less valuable, they shouldn't be any different or have any less rights than a child planned previously.
So either you are pro-choice and support the right of a woman to have an abortion as an option, no questions asked, even if you consider it immoral in some of those situations, that's a personal choice
Or you are pro-life and make a coherent position without opening up incoherent exceptions for rapes and so on, no fallacies please
I though deeper about it and I came to the conclusion you are either pro-choice or pro-life, there's not much sense in making an exception merely for rape, after all, why is a child conceived trough non consented sex less valuable than any other? From the moment we consider a fetus, we have to consider all fetuses as equal by a matter of coherence. The same could be said for fetuses with deficiencies, why are they less valuable than a healthy fetus? According to the pro-life argument, since lives are valuable, you can't make these two last lives be less valuable, they shouldn't be any different or have any less rights than a child planned previously.
So either you are pro-choice and support the right of a woman to have an abortion as an option, no questions asked, even if you consider it immoral in some of those situations, that's a personal choice
Or you are pro-life and make a coherent position without opening up incoherent exceptions for rapes and so on, no fallacies please
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