RE: Atheists condone and condemn rape
December 8, 2013 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: December 8, 2013 at 6:04 pm by Duck.)
(December 8, 2013 at 5:57 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote:(December 8, 2013 at 5:50 pm)Duck Wrote: I am not saying keeping a child is necessarily the most responsible thing. I have not said that.A foetus has no rights. It doesn't gain any rights at all unless it grows into a baby and is born. Until then it is part of the host's body, which she has all rights too. I don't have sex for reproduction. I have sex for pleasure. I don't want to ruin my life with a smelly, noisy, shitty little demanding creature, so if something goes wrong and I do get pregnant, it's not welcome to stay and will be out by the end of the week. Simplez.
You do have rights, but at some point so must the fetus. If you make a choice that results in an outcome, you and you alone are responsible. You choose to have sex, and the (perhaps untended) consequence of a pregnancy. By the act, you have given consent for sperm to go into your body and thus impregnate you. That is the consent. Your actions give the consent. No action, no consent.
Even once the fetus can survive on its own without your body to support it? Once this point is reached at the fetus is viable, can survive without you, do you retain the right to kill it because it happens to be inside you?
(December 8, 2013 at 6:00 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: I'm totally in agreement with Nora, women can have sex and its no ones business.
When it becomes my business is when a woman gets pregnant and wants my tax money to pay for her doctors appointments, labs, the birth of the baby, and welfare support to raise that kid. Thats no ones responsibility but hers. Not to mention college if they even get that far. Kids are an inevitable result of sex. Sex was literally designed for procreation.
Have sex all you want. Just don't make me pay for it.
Thats how I feel but that's nit reality. People are going to have sex. Sex is a very important essence of society and humanity, and so are children--whether they were wanted or not. We as a society are responsible for eachother, to eachother. Standing on two opposite cliffs isn't going to bring you any closer to building a bridge, you have to start building it one piece at a time from your side to the other and meet in the middle.
I'm not saying it is any of my business. But the dead of a human being is my business. At some point during a pregnancy, there is a point at which it is no longer ok to kill the fetus. That point is when it is viable without the support of the mother.