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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (83450)	7/6/2000 11:11:45 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The balance (imo) is a matter or personal opinion, religion, morals- and is best left to the individual. Why the first trimester? Partly because of viability but mostly for palatability. The easiest moral position to take is the position that all abortion is wrong- but that is simply too harsh to women (imo). Ease of moral position does not (imo) make right or fair, if I even believed in right or fair. I don't think there is any way to "win" this argument. We can only put out our competing ideas. I only put mine out there because I feel it is my duty when men talk about abortion. Certainly a male seed is required to create life, but that is all. For the rest of fetal development a female body is held hostage. Willing hostages are fine- but no one should be able to commandeer the cellular machinery of another. I do not think many men understand the toll pregnancy takes on women- male doctors, perhaps, but even they tend to discount their patients and distance themselves. Of course even if they understood it perfectly it isn't their body being taken over, os they will never be able to make the calculus correct. So I will continue to think that this is best left up to individual women.