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To: aladin who wrote (469632)	2/3/2012 11:50:44 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794043

That is why I said it's a "political" decision.

To: aladin who wrote (469632)	2/3/2012 5:11:21 PM
From: Zakrosian	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794043

Like the definition of marriage - this issue is at the crossroads of religion and secular politics and there are no reasonable voices here. Several decades ago, before Roe v. Wade, Nicholas Von Hoffman wrote an interesting op-ed about abortion (as a 19 year old at the time, I was hopefully pro-choice). His position was that abortion arguably involved the killing of a person...as does capital punishment and war. So the issue came down to when killing a human is morally acceptable. I think he ultimately came down to this: is a fetus a person? That's a philosophical/religious question, so let's move on to a more basic question: at what point should a fetus be considered a person? His opinion was simple: if a fetus can survive outside the womb, it's a person. If not, it's not. So his proposal - a woman should have the right to have her fetus removed from her body, but the doctor who does so has the responsibility to do whatever he/she can to keep the fetus alive. An interesting viewpoint - certainly not one that would satisfy pro-lifers, but might be a basis for a political compromise on the issue. Personally, I think the issue will ultimately (like within the next century or so) move in the pro-life direction, especially as science shows how much external factors contribute to fetal, and ultimately, personal development. If pro-choicers want to keep abortion as a socially acceptable option, they'd push for a constitutional amendment permitting abortion in the first trimester, but prohibiting it past that point, unless the mother's life was at risk.