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Originally Posted by Eolas Pellor
I think the entire abortion debate is stupid...a great deal of heat, without any light whatsoever. Both sides make up specious arguments, and throw out examples that are so extreme as to be statistically negligible.
I do not like abortion. I think it is a bad alternative, even though, sometimes, having a child is also a bad alternative.
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Life is full of choices, and some of them are appalling. Yet we are required, from time to time, to make them. My point was that I think there is a time when how to make those choices is entirely personal. I don't necessarily know how to define the time when that choice might reasonably be taken away, but certainly when a developing fetus is viable ex-utero, I think the law might have something to say. Even then -- how can I be certain?
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Life is hard, and I have no right to make it harder by telling people what they can and can not do in such circumstances.
Moralizing is easy, and cheap, and very little help to people.
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Just so, and well said.
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I notice that many of the "pro-life" people are anxious to prevent women from having abortions, but far less anxious to help them when they actually have the baby. I notice, too, that most "pro-choice" advocates (that I have known) are very vocal about the woman's right to choose, but also rarely step up to help young women who choose to keep their child.
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I agree. We are all hypocrites when we pontificate about what is right and wrong, but refuse to involve ourselves when such choices must be made.
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I have helped young women who chose to keep their child, financially and in other ways.
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Glad to hear it. There are others who do likewise, but far too many who merely demonstrate, treating the young women (whether aborting or not) as nothing more than pawns in their moral crusade.