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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (21603)	7/22/2005 12:04:11 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

in Canada and the U.S. there is no time stipulated after which abortion is disallowed. Abortion on demand for any reason at anytime is the Law. I can't be bothered to check this now, so I will take your word for it - can a 9 month pregnant woman go to the abortion clinic and have the baby killed & taken out just because she wants to? It sounds highly unlikely to me, especially since after about 24 weeks (that is less than 6 months), the baby is viable outside the mother. The worst that can happen is that they would load the baby with cortisone to mature her lungs and then proceed with an induction. Besides, have you looked up what percentage of abortions take place after the first couple of months? Abortions after 20th week of pregnancy make up less than 1% of all abortions in the US. I don't recall what part of those are medical emergencies, but maybe you could look that up. More than 55% of all abortions in the US take place before nine weeks. Women make up their minds about these things fairly quickly, you see... If she wants it it is considered a Human being with all the accompanying rights and protection but if she does not, (for any reason at all) then it is legal to kill the unborn at any time. That is a funny interpretation of the law, which, as far as I can see, says a fetus does not have rights as an individual until birth. Both in the US and in Canada. No; it ["killed"] is an entirely accurate and scientifically appropriate term. I disagree. Please prove this assertion that it is a "scientifically appropriate term". To do that, you might like to start with proving how a fertilized egg can be considered a sentient being. The unborn are biologically alive Human beings A fertilized egg is not a human being at any definition of the word, any more than the skin you scratch from your nose is a "human being". Cloning hypothetical aside Cloning is not "hypothetical", as you must know if you have been following the news these past years. And I'd rather not put it aside. what you have from the moment of conception is a complete Human being Please. You are talking about a cluster of cells, less sentient than bacteria. How can it possibly be a "complete human being"??? I presume from your comments that you say we should allow them to be killed for any reason, even if it's just because they are a girl and not a boy? Huh? You think that abortion is funny? I don't think "abortion" is funny. It is probably quite an unpleasant experience. What is funny is you calling the sacrifices a woman makes to bring a baby into this world "inconveniences".