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Politics : The abortion issue: pro-choice vs. anti-abortion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (107)	10/15/2008 11:29:50 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 286

<This whole I can't decided because I'm a man theme is ridiculous. > No it's not... although of course you can have that opinion. Secondly, can't decide what? I can certainly decide that it is only a woman who can possibly experience these things and consult her (them). <Either the fetus has no moral significance, or at least a relatively small amount of significance, in which case outlawing abortion would be wrong.> Relatively I suppose is a good concept. <Either way being a man has nothing to do with it.> It DOES, because the 'relativity' is between a woman and her baby... actually a MAN has VERY LITTLE to do with that relationship by comparison. <If a fetus was just a piece of the mother with no important moral significance, then it wouldn't be any more your business if you where a woman unless it was your abortion.> Of course a fetus IS (partly) "a piece of" the mother... however "moral significance" like all moral issues depends on the context of the situation. <then it wouldn't be any more your business if you where a woman unless it was your abortion.> EXACTLY!! In other words it's a deeply personal issue each woman needs to deal with on her own. That's the original point. DAK