Is the abortion debate nothing more than a debate about when human life starts?

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Erick

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Is the abortion debate nothing more than a debate about when human life starts? It has nothing to do with "limiting rights", "keeping women down", or "wanting to consciously kill babies". Pro-choice people just believe that human life starts much later than when pro-life people believe [that human life starts].
See, I totally agree with a woman's right to choose to do whatever she wants with her body, but what about when she makes a life or death decision for a child too?
 
That is a big part of it. But not the only part.

You can see this if you try and draw a firm line about what exactly should be prohibited.

For example, even though most are against late-term abortions (at that point they mostly agree that you have a human life), there are some who would grant them for the health of the mother. A question about the relative value of one life over another, not the start of human life.

There are other issues involved too. Some are concerned about government intrusiveness. Some are concerned about social engineering. And there are other aspects as well.
 
That is a big part of it. But not the only part.

You can see this if you try and draw a firm line about what exactly should be prohibited.

For example, even though most are against late-term abortions (at that point they mostly agree that you have a human life), there are some who would grant them for the health of the mother. A question about the relative value of one life over another, not the start of human life.

There are other issues involved too. Some are concerned about government intrusiveness. Some are concerned about social engineering. And there are other aspects as well.
 
Well the Republicans have done Nothing to change the abortion issue and just beat up Democrats about it . I think Republicans use it as a Political weapon . I really do not believe that they care about babies at all - born or un born . I think Republicans - Conservatives care about Money and nothing more .
 
IMO it's about separating sex from procreation, about resistance to women being as free as men to engage in recreational sex without fear of unwanted pregnancy and unwanted motherhood. If you can take it on faith that a precious human life is created at conception, wouldn't it be equally valid to take it on faith that this life begins BEFORE conception? If God is infinite and "knew you before you were born" then doesn't God know you even before your parents are born, know the very sperm cell that He has determined will become YOU?

With our modern sensibilities, such an argument is dismissed as silliness but it wasn't that long ago that Americans very like yourself belived this with a belief as serious and sincere as your own. Legislation like the Comstock Laws, which made it illegal to trade in 'lewd or lascivious materials' such as pornography and contraceptives, was passed in response to national concern with what was quaintly called "the solitary vice." Sounds crazy, but don't take my word for it, research it.
 
I think the debate goes even further; when full-term babies are aborted, that could breathe and survive outside the mother's womb on their own (late-term abortions), and end up as medical waste in the laundry hamper.
 
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