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Dont lie. I've done so many times and you continue to come back and post things that have already been refuted.
If you think they're refuted then feel free to disengage. I seem to recall an uneven debate where you refuse to give straight answers to uncomfortable questions.
It's insulting because you're reducing them to the same level as the unborn and its incomplete and unequal status. Feel free to continue to do so
It's at once amusing and frustrating to try and ferret out a leftist's flowchart of who is equal to others.
The unborn dont feel the shame of slavery, and they know and feel nothing during abortion...so you again lie or are very poorly informed.
We could anaesthetize an infant and kill him. He neither knows nor feels his death. Why is that unacceptable?
The point of self-defense is to kill the attacker. The point of war is to kill the enemy. The point of pulling the plug is killing the patient. The list goes on...we find many types of killiing justified in our society. Genocide is not justifiable, abortion is. Your personal opinion of a woman's needs, a stranger who you dont even know, has no bearing on what she needs. Your 'imagination' is not justification for any law.
That's right. There's precedent for killing some people given the right circumstances. There is no justifiable precedent for deliberately killing the innocent.
? They still have rights. They're lives are being supported. Their property is preserved in their names, their wills are maintained, etc etc etc. And their legal representatives have final say over maintaining those lives in many cases...just like the pregnant woman.
You didn't answer the question. Why can't we kill other people who are completely dependent? Or can we?
Of course abortion is a moral act. It imposes no pain or suffering on the unborn...
Which is irrelevant. I can't deliberately kill innocent people whether they feel pain or not. If it did impose pain on the unborn, would your stance change? I doubt it.
... while the woman is forced to suffer pain and sickness, possibly death...
That's nature. Pregnancy and childbirth are risky and painful by their nature. No one is forcing that on them - nature forces that. I wish you'd stop using misleading terms. Laws against stealing food aren't forcing people to be hungry.
...and the humiliation of women's marginalized role in our society where the unborn is valued above her life.
The unborn is not valued above the mother's life. The two lives aren't in conflict. Both can live most of the time.
It robs women of a right to consent and it sacrifices women's right to self-determination and instead, conferring the same exact thing on the unborn instead. That is immoral...why is the unborn more deserving of consent, individual liberty, self-determination, etc?
What is a "right to consent", and how does prohibiting a woman from killing her children infringe upon it? If self-determination means the freedom to kill people, then neither women nor men have it.
But again, I'll always come down on the moral side of not intentionally causing pain and suffering in another...and the unborn suffers nothing.
Yeah, nothing. Well... except death. Just death. Big deal.
We're discussing real life. Not some extreme hypothetical. But if you want to create a case like I did above to support doing so 'morally', feel free.
Okay, we'll try something more plausible: If pro-lifers succeed in amending the constitution such that it now protects human beings from conception, it would change your question from this:
The real question is when a human life has individual legal status and rights. According to the 14th Amendment, it's once you are born.
To this:
The real question is when a human life has individual legal status and rights. According to the 28th Amendment, it's at conception.
What would your argument be then? Probably that the 28th amendment is wrong, correct?