Fun fact: according to economist Steven Levitt, legalized abortion has a positive and significant effect on crime rate in the US. Which makes perfect sense, considering not all children are born equally. The couples who want abortions are more likely to live in deprived areas, more likely to give birth to a child in the middle of a shithole, for lack of a better term. When abortion was legalized, the crime rate of the 21st century that was supposed to double, decreased by fifty percent. Because the future teenage criminals never made it out the whomb.
Just a fun fact I wanted to share in this thread. However, I'm not using it as a defense for my pro-choice stance. Just something I wanted to add, since the abortion debate has been beaten to death on this forum. Not once have I seen anybody's opinion changed. It's that kind of topic. It's up there with religion and music taste. It's incredibly difficult for someone to see the other side of an argument in these topics.
Since it is the woman bearing the child, it should be her choice whether or not she would like to go through 9 months of pregnancy and a painful birth. It is agreed upon that a fetus, in its early stages of development, is not a human being. Otherwise abortion wouldn't be legal in the first place, because it would be murder. What you're ending with an abortion is potential human life. And I am perfectly okay with a woman deciding to end a potential human life. It is her child, and it is her responsibility, and sometimes, to be honest, depending on the environment the mother is living in: the child would have been better off dead. Now, that is an assumption, and does not apply to all cases. But if the impact of legalized abortion on crime rate is any indication...that scenario may be true a lot of the time.
Pro-lifers like the ones in this topic can tell me it's not that simple. Of course nobody would want it to sound so simple, we're talking about ending a potential human life. But I see it is that simple.
In the end, what's the point of debating a topic that's already been enacted? Abortion isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Right, right...
Just a fun fact I wanted to share in this thread. However, I'm not using it as a defense for my pro-choice stance. Just something I wanted to add, since the abortion debate has been beaten to death on this forum. Not once have I seen anybody's opinion changed. It's that kind of topic. It's up there with religion and music taste. It's incredibly difficult for someone to see the other side of an argument in these topics.
Since it is the woman bearing the child, it should be her choice whether or not she would like to go through 9 months of pregnancy and a painful birth. It is agreed upon that a fetus, in its early stages of development, is not a human being. Otherwise abortion wouldn't be legal in the first place, because it would be murder. What you're ending with an abortion is potential human life. And I am perfectly okay with a woman deciding to end a potential human life. It is her child, and it is her responsibility, and sometimes, to be honest, depending on the environment the mother is living in: the child would have been better off dead. Now, that is an assumption, and does not apply to all cases. But if the impact of legalized abortion on crime rate is any indication...that scenario may be true a lot of the time.
Pro-lifers like the ones in this topic can tell me it's not that simple. Of course nobody would want it to sound so simple, we're talking about ending a potential human life. But I see it is that simple.
In the end, what's the point of debating a topic that's already been enacted? Abortion isn't going anywhere any time soon.
(July 24, 2013 at 7:44 pm)catfish Wrote: It's not "potential" human life, it IS human life.
Right, right...
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