CoffeeSaint said:
As you say yourself, sex is for reproduction AND for pleasure. Therefore, we cannot treat the choice to have sex as the sole cause of pregnancy; pregnancy also requires certain biological circumstances largely outside of a person's control.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
That is nonsense and you know it. We have discussed many ways to prevent pregnancy. Lets see Visectomy, Tubal ligation, condomes, foam, pills, patches, injections,..... How many different ways do you want?
Birth control is not the issue. Sex is not the issue. Related, of course; but not the central topic. As I said, pregnancy relies on many things: ovulation, viable sperm, successful implantation, hormone production, etc., etc. It cannot be absolutely predicted, and it cannot be absolutely prevented, except by abstinence. If your position is that we should ban sex, that is a different argument, isn't it? Birth control is a secondary issue, because 1)no birth control is 100%, not two methods, not three, not fifty; there is still the chance that a woman could get pregnant, and the laws must consider that exception that tests the rule. and 2) rapists do not use birth control, and yet rape impregnates women.
I want the woman to have this choice: if she is pregnant, and does not want to be pregnant, she does not have to be pregnant any longer. She should not have to wait nine months, and go through the entire ordeal of pregnancy, in order not to be pregnant.
CoffeeSaint said:
Pregnancy is also 9 months long; a woman should have the freedom to choose what she wants to do with her own body at any time during that period, not just before sex. There is no other situation in our society where you are not allowed to change your mind, not when the technology or institution exists for a choice.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
She already had the choice. You are talking about killing an innocent human being there is no other time in society where you are allowed to do that.
Sure there is. When two patients come into the E.R., and the doctor chooses to work on one and not the other, the unfortunate one dies by the doctor's choice. Legal. If two kids are trapped in a burning house, and I save one but not the other, I let the second child die. Legal. If someone accidentally breaks into my house -- let's say a drunk, or someone with schizophrenia -- and I shoot them, I would probably be absolved of guilt, because I had a reasonable suspicion. Yet they were innocent, and I killed them. Legal. Do you need more?
Now, give me an example of a decision you cannot take back, legally.
CoffeeSaint said:
Birth control does not always work, not even vasectomies and tubal ligations.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
What are the chances of 2 forms of birth control failing??
Small. But not zero. I don't want to enslave that one unlucky woman any more than the thousands who have unwanted pregnancies now.
CoffeeSaint said:
Birth control is not always used, even by people who do not want children.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
Now who"s fault is that. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. If males had to pay child support all during the pregnancy there would be fewer abortions.
Thank you for mentioning crime. I was referring to rapists. This idea that men paying child support would lead to fewer pregnancies is not true, in my opinion. Men have societal pressure to stand by the woman now, and they don't. Why would money make a difference? Do you seriously think that a 16 year old boy is going to think, "Crap, I don't have a condom, and if she gets pregnant, I'll have to pay child support. I better not have sex with her." Because I don't think he would do that.
CoffeeSaint said:
Until birth control is 100%, whether you like it or not, there will be unwanted pregnancies, and that means there has to be an option for a woman who does not want to be pregnant.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
The Options are birth control at least 2 but you can use more. Soon abortions will be up to the states then it will be up to the people not the courts. Most people oppose abortion on demand. The last several elections have shown that.
I'm talking about an option after she finds she is pregnant. Birth control is useless at that point, and a law mandating she carry the child to term would be slavery. As for this idea that the majority of people oppose abortion, why is it still legal? If Roe v. Wade is so sure to be overturned, why hasn't it been in the last 30 years?
CoffeeSaint said:
At this point, the only option is abortion. Rather than taking away that opition, try to find another solution: try to encourage the invention of an effective mechanical womb, and a safe and sure transplantation procedure. Then everybody wins.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
In Japan a device exist but the question remains who pays for it? Who is responsible? Who is at fault for an unwanted pregnancy? If abortion was made ilegal there would be fewer unwanted pregnancies.
Can you give me a link that shows this machine? I would like to see it. And it doesn't mean there is an effective transplant surgery, which is the larger obstacle, anyway. Without that, the mechanical womb is fairly pointless. If it were possible to do this, the woman should have to pay for it; she has to pay for the abortion now. And this idea that there will be fewer unwanted pregnancies has no proof, does it? Our wishful thinking should not determine our laws.
CoffeeSaint said:
Until that happy day, abortion is necessary.
Proudly Pro Life JP Freem said:
No it is not personal responsibility is necessary Killing an innocent human being is never necessary. As I pointed out today we have ways to prevent pregnancy. Why would anyone want to kill a baby just for having the freedom to have sexual gratification. Is it worth a human life?
We do not have ways to end pregnancy, and that is the issue. Killing innocent human beings is sometimes necessary; look at the casualties of war. Why would anyone want to enslave a woman just to save a baby that she does not want? What are you really saving? Who are you really helping? The baby is not killed for the sake of sexual gratification, it is killed for the sake of freedom, and sometimes, people have to die so that others may be free. It is sad, but it is a choice we often have to make. I do not believe the lives of the children are worth more than the lives, and the liberty, or their mothers. Why do you? Is it because the women had sex, and that makes them bad in your eyes? How then do you oppose abortion in the case of rape? Why do you support slavery?