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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 8, 2018 at 4:16 pm
(August 8, 2018 at 3:39 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: (August 8, 2018 at 3:20 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: So in other words, your concern about the use of fetal tissue in experiments with mice stems from an objection to abortion and not any consent garbage, no?
Why can't it be both? I thought by posting the article about harvesting organs to see if there could some concern among pro-choice people that some types of abortions or abortion related actions are wrong, as a mirror image to how some pro-life people would be willing to make exceptions for rape and incest.
That was the point of the Socratic exercise, Neo, or weren't you paying attention?
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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 8, 2018 at 5:05 pm
(August 5, 2018 at 6:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Sorry... it's an extremely sensitive and personal issue for me and my family. I shouldn't be on this thread, but couldn't help it. I appreciate your taking the time to share your thought processes and justifications for your feelings about this. It's something you certainly didn't have to do, especially given what you are saying here, and given that you are in a forum filled with heathens. 
This statement made me think a bit, for this is a very sensitive and personal issue for me and my family as well, since my sister had an illegal abortion in the 60s. I am forever grateful that she survived it because it could have gone pear-shaped easily. Her story was horrifying.
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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 9, 2018 at 12:55 am
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(August 8, 2018 at 3:48 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: (August 8, 2018 at 3:34 pm)robvalue Wrote: I'm not sure if any pro-lifer has addressed this yet:
Does the fact that giving birth runs a higher risk of death for the mother than an abortion concern you? Is forcing the mother to risk her life in this way justified?
You are more likely to be hit by a car on the way there. Also the mortality rates for the little human is of more of a concern.
Okay, that is a strange way to dismiss putting someone's life in danger. Is that the benchmark then? It's okay to force people to do things, to protect the safety of another for which you consider them responsible, if you don't exceed the danger of them being run over?
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August 9, 2018 at 12:57 am
Clearly, it's okay even then..as we already know that people -do- get run over when abortion is criminalized.
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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 9, 2018 at 3:23 am
From what we saw earlier in the thread, RR would place the value of this unborn "human" at less then 0.1% of a regular human. Yet now the life of this unborn is of greater concern than the regular human. Why is that?
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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 9, 2018 at 7:48 am
I am guilty of the mass murder of sperm, half human indeed, back when I switched right from left hand. Ah shit to the point of blisters. Old times.
Women only murder a n egg rougly once a month, bleedind and pain, the time men call the communist time of the month.
Weirdly, these anti abortion people only seem to care about the human being in the womb, while its inside. When it comes out both him and his mother are fucked.
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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 9, 2018 at 8:13 am
(August 9, 2018 at 3:23 am)robvalue Wrote: From what we saw earlier in the thread, RR would place the value of this unborn "human" at less then 0.1% of a regular human. Yet now the life of this unborn is of greater concern than the regular human. Why is that?
I don't think that there are "regular humans" and lesser humans in this way; if that is what you are saying. This would be a misrepresentation of my views.
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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 9, 2018 at 8:41 am
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By regular human, I meant one that's already born. You saved the one regular ahead of 1,000 potential humans. How has the priority switched so much since that?
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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 9, 2018 at 11:57 am
(August 9, 2018 at 8:41 am)robvalue Wrote: By regular human, I meant one that's already born. You saved the one regular ahead of 1,000 potential humans. How has the priority switched so much since that?
You still seem to be arguing a position that I do not hold.
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RE: If you're pro-life, how far do you take that?
August 9, 2018 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2018 at 3:30 pm by RoadRunner79.)
If in a similar scenario I would save my Mum, over you and 5 members of your family, it doesn’t mean that you are less human or have any less right to life, with which I can end on a whim.
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