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Abortion is not the deliberate termination of a human life. It is the removal of an embryo from a woman's body. If it dies as a consequence, that is because it can't live without using her body to give it continued life. Induced abortion is self-defense, while spontaneous abortion is not induced and so rarely if ever deliberate.Abortion is the deliberate termination of a human life, done without the indictment for a crime, done without permitting the accused to confront his accusers, done without trial or jury.
How is abortion not worse than what happens to people pushed in front of a NY subway train?
To be completely honest, the 50% figure is one I've seen and heard and cannot and will not attest to as being founded on any sort of published crime statistic. The figure cited was intended more as a rhetorical device. Remember this, OJ Simpson is still not guilty of murdering Nicole Brown and whatever his name was. The fact intended to be conveyed was that crimes are defined under the law with the knowledge that people will continue to commit those acts, but that the acts are criminalized in the hopes that the penalties will deter the behavior.
If there was no law against shoplifting, more shoplifting will happen. Just ask the Target stores in San Francisco. Same is true for any crime you'd care to identify, if there was lesser penalty there'd be more of the behavior.
Criminalize abortion and there will be fewer abortions and hopefully more women, and men, paying more attention to the risk of an unwanted pregnancy.
Why do you want babies killed by irresponsible women?
Induced abortion is self-defense in two distinct ways:
1) for those who do not believe that an embryo is a person, such as myself
Because the embryo is part of the woman's body and increases her risk of eventual death, illness, or injury in late pregnancy/childbirth, she certainly has a right to stop any pregnancy.
2) for those who believe that an embryo is a person
Even if a woman consented to sex with one particular man, if she did not officially consent to sex with one of his children, an embryo involving his DNA has no right to to form in her body and implant in her endometrial wall in her uterus. That would be rape.
In my state, a woman who is being threatened with rape or is being raped has the right to use lethal force if necessary to stop it and a third party has the right to help her. It should not matter than the embryo, like an escapee of an asylum for the criminally insane, is not competent to stand trial, or has no intention of raping, because the objective use of force for sexual contact defines the crime.
Where did you get the idea that manslaughter and murder are crimes against human life? They aren't. They're crimes against living persons. And where did you get the notion that homicide in self-defense is murder?
Embryos and fetuses are not persons according to the constitution. Moreover, sensible anti-abortion people know that, which is the reason they have formed and tried to pass a Fetal Personhood Amendment in more than one state. Even the state with the largest populations against abortion (Mississippi, about 55%) could not get a majority of voters to vote for such an amendment.
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