True, my opinion based on my observations.
Exactly, and you are just as capable of making objective measures as I am. The fact that you and I disagree just as the population disagrees shows our mutual need for a higher authority to come in, examine the facts, and set a common policy for all to follow.
So, at least given the fact that all 3 branches of the government agree in practice with your side of this issue, it behooves you and all PC to not declare them unqualified to make such policy, as to do so is to say that the current allowance of abortion is unfounded, which is self destruction on your part.
Our laws are not based on considerations of "holy spirit" or "God", and a zef is clearly not a candidate for personhood. As long as a zef is dependent on a woman for life, it is worthy of as much respect as she decides.
Well, actually they are, just in different words. The law uses terms like "
communal law" so as to make "
blue law" seem secular. It's the same thing, it's just that secularists are so stupid that the case can be made otherwise.
The same is true in so far as abortion is concerned; even gay marriage. It's a simple trick, really, I call people on it all the time. As a master of sophistry I know it when I see it, so let me illustrate this brief and simple word play.
Instead of using overt words like "
holy spirit", "God" or similar, we use words like "
tradition", "
conscious" and "
history". If you look through some SCOTUS rulings you will find this terminology appearing as "
deeply rooted in the traditions, history, and conscience of the people".
So, while in an informal setting like this academic forum you will see us say things like "
temple of the holy spirit", we know to turn on the legal translator when in serious legal discussions and especially in official legal proceedings.
Generous fella, aren't you?
Quite :mrgreen:
The only thing is that women tend to change their minds about abortion once it involves them personally. There will be an ever changing opinion, and you will NEVER eliminate pro-choice women.
Women loose their objectivity when they become pregnant?
I'll agree to that.
Here, have some information on financial planning for keeping your child (
where's your fiancé', btw, we have info. for him as well; and it gets better once you 2 go down to the court house with $70 and make it official next week), some information on adoption services, and a Hang'ing® kit courtesy of your local Evil Conservative Chapter.
The blame for abortion deaths falls on the population that knowing women will have abortions yet denied women the availability of safe abortion.
Well, no, 'cuz we're not forcing anyone to put a hanger anywhere, we're not even encouraging it.
These women do it to themselves, so the blood is on their own hands.
It was generous of your significant other to share the experience with you, since she need not have done so.
Here again we simply come from very different premises.
My wife was raised on a healthy diet of traditional native 'American, Christian and Naval values. We didn't even have sex for the first time until we were committed to each other for life. We were, in for all intents and purposes, married.
Her not being of the morally absent, selfish and self centered mind of feminism that no doubt you were raised with, her being pregnant was a family, a community issue. In her mind it wasn't a matter of "
generosity", as that's feminist hype, but of familial responsibility.
I recall a P.P. receptionist having the balls to ask her why she told me that she was pregnant. My wife looked at her with a "well-no-duh" expression and said "
it's his child".
The receptionist didn't seem to understand, saying something about "
it's not a child, it's a fetus" as they disappeared into a room in the back.
Those who do not know of the pregnancy cannot be damaged by the end of it. Children are amazingly unaware of pregnancy and little affected by the end of it. Crib death affects those who "knew" the baby, abortion likewise affects only those who "knew" the fetus, and that can only be few.
You admit then that everyone who knows of the pregnancy is effected by it.
So much for your premise "
Abortion really effects no one but the pregnant woman."
This is yet another premise you dissolve yourself.
That solution would help if applied, unfortunately, it has never really worked. I suspect that most test-driving has been done at the request of men, and therefore you need to appeal to them on that issue, and that is not throwing off responsibility, but assigning it properly.
That solution hasn't been applied for a long time, but when applied, it works.
Not risking making a woman pregnant until he is ready to start a family with her is a responsibility of a man, just as not risking becoming pregnant with any man she is not ready to start a family with is a responsibility of the woman.