But this thread is treating it like a joke. A “Gotcha!” where you seem to think anyone pro-choice would be happy eating a fetus. Do you know anyone who feels that way? Ask around, in your family get-together, in the local bar… Bring up the question at dinner with friends.
But you didn’t do that, did you? (My guess is you’d alienate those friends)…You did it anonymously on an internet messageboard. A board where other discussions are started in good faith. NOT as “Gotchas”.
Of COURSE an abortion is “a sad choice to have to make”. ANY sane person would feel that way. Pro-Life and Pro-Choice alike. Do you really picture people fighting for women’s rights rejoicing when someone aborts a fetus?
I have special types of friends: they tolerate people like me. I’ve asked a couple of my friends who give to PP and have had this discussion with my wife.
I don’t think anyone would be happy to eat a fetus. That was never the question. The question was “do you find it morally reprehensible for me (the idiot OP) to eat an aborted fetus.”
As for your last point: I think the tragedy of abortion is lost in the whirlwind of achieving women’s right much of the time.
Both sides (life/choice) are so black and white that they paint the best picture to win their argument. Thus both sides negelect the human experience at times to win votes.
I have some news for you. Any sane person would consider an abortion a sad event, whether it’s from medical necessity or any other reason. And any reasonable person will understand that the woman’s unique circumstances and needs and the judgments of medical professionals and the guidelines of medical ethics in marginal situations will do more to ensure the best (or least harmful) outcomes for all than any draconian laws, well-intentioned or not – and most of them are not. Most such laws are due to meddlesome mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging religious nutters.
IOW, your idiotic OP did absolutely nothing to illuminate the issue, and your latest platitudes add exactly zero value. Like your statement “I’m against abortion”. WTF does that even mean? You know what? I, personally, am against sad and depressing things. So there you go. A philosophy of life! :rolleyes: In fact I think it should be seriously illegal (perhaps punishable by death) for anyone to do anything sad or depressing for any reason.
You are sadly misinformed on the issue. I have never seen pro-choice advanced as a celebration of abortion by any sane person, though it’s often misrepresented that way by its lunatic opponents as an idiotic rhetorical device. Kind of like your OP.
Personally I’d choose life over abortion unless it was going to cost me losing my wife. Then I’d chose to have the abortion. Thus, in general, I’m not pro abortion. That’s what that means.
I am not anti choice.
I never said anyone celebrated abortions nor even hinted at it.
Until they get their views into law, then they eliminate those exceptions. The* only *goal of the anti abortion movement is to persecute, torture and kill women.
This OP had one purpose, regardless what the author claims about shock or illumination of some point or other. That purpose was to demonstrate their own cleverness. A transparent ruse to be able to announce their own highly evolved and nuanced stand.
Instead they demonstrated how lame and self absorbed they are.
Why come to a community of sound discussions to show off your lack of ability? Way to demonstrate how out of your league you actually are.