Okay to drink/abuse your body if you're pregnant but intending to abort?

[Czarcasm]

@WhyNot

I’m curious what this post means. Does this mean we’re not allowed to post cites, or we’re not supposed to back up our opinions with science, or we’re just not allowed to care too much about the issue or fighting the ignorance in the thread?

In other words: Okay, this is not Great Debates. Got it. And so whose behavior should change and how, and is this **Czarcasm **the Poster or **Czarcasm **the Moderator speaking?

[Frustrated Moderator]It means that this thread is for collecting opinions on the subject of the OP. You state your opinion, then move on and let others do the same. If you want to debate the subject, go elsewhere.[/Frustrated Moderator]

[Czarcasm]

@JThunder

Again, let me remind you that I was articulating how a pro-lifer or a moderate pro-choicer would view this issue and how this would color their opinions. My own views on abortion are irrelevant to this discussion, which is why I refuse to go in that direction.

As for whether it’s “ultimately up to the woman to decide what to do with her own body” or whether “the fetus is part of her body,” those are precisely the sorts of topics that make for great debates.

BTW, I did not introduce the word “kill” into this discussion. See Shoshana, for example, who said “I am pro-choice and also think abortion is a culturally-sanctioned form of killing.” Even mhendo, who objected strongly to one of my previous statement, described the fetus as being “terminated.” Whether this killing and/or termination is justified or not is a matter of (again) great debate, and I will not let myself get sucked in that direction.

As far as this mini-debate is concerned, I’m getting the last word.
Stop.

[WhyNot]

@Czarcasm

[Frustrated Moderator]It means that this thread is for collecting opinions on the subject of the OP. You state your opinion, then move on and let others do the same. If you want to debate the subject, go elsewhere.[/Frustrated Moderator]

I’m still not clear, but maybe you could meet me in the Pit so we don’t have to hijack this thread any more. It’s not a Pitting, just to be clear. Just a question/discussion on the Moderation, which I understand belongs in the Pit anyway.

[Freudian_Slit]

I’m sorry the thread has evolved to a debate. Czarcasm, do you think it ought to be moved to GD at this point?

[Czarcasm]

@Freudian Slit

I’m sorry the thread has evolved to a debate. Czarcasm, do you think it ought to be moved to GD at this point?

As the OP, if you so wish it, I will.

[Freudian_Slit]

Great, I think it’s more suited to the discussion of a GD. Thanks for moving it there, if you don’t mind?

[Czarcasm]

Moving thread from IMHO to Great Debates.