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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: cirrus who wrote (40796)10/28/2008 1:49:55 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (2) of 149317
 
yeah and the whole problem with the abortion debate is that abortion is something that occurs naturally. You can even get into a heated discussion about whether something was an intentional or unintentional abortion (some drug cocktails having nothing to do with pregnancy can cause a spontaneous abortion- or a woman can be out rollerblading or something and fall, is this "murder"?). So it is not a black and white issue for hundreds of reasons.

Abortion will never be illegal again in entirety just due to the legislative difficulty so the whole issue is something of a canard.

Case1: Parent and 4 year old child
Cast2: Parent and 4 mos old fetus.

Case1, child gets life threatening disease and needs bone marrow transplant from parent. Parent refuses (deadbeat dad or something). A dispicable situation, what do we as a society do to the parent? The answer is nothing.

Case2, child needs parent to carry to term to live. Parent no longer wants to carry to term and chooses to have an abortion. How is case2 different from case1, above, from a legal standpoint? it isn't really different.

The bottom line is we don't violate one persons rights in favor of another person, for any adult or child. pro lifers can never win their case fully in court. They can try to mandate their pro life stance at the state level where most residents vote for no abortions and this never goes to court, or they can use the "Creul and unusual punishment" angle for some exotic procedures but thats about it.
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