Abortion/Consciousness/Life

[bennyboy]

Most of us save the new born because the baby has potentially quite a long lifetime ahead of it while the old man on the death bed does not. The thought experiment shows we value future expected personhood and for the most part ignore past personhood except in when we want to abort.....(which is really not a good reason to favor past person over future personhood).

Any woman still capable of having a baby still has potentially quite a long lifetime ahead of her, too. Does the fact that she's had a man inside her really mean she should be condemned to spending it supporting your arbitrary personal beliefs?

I also don't like abortion. If my daughter was in a situation where she wanted one (and in the unlikely event that she told me about it), I would caution her to consider what it really means to have one. But in the end, it's her body, her life, and her decision, and unless I wanted to be a class-A dick, I would support whatever decision she made.