Everyone who voted for that bill wants to take away our (my wife’s and I’s) choice to terminate our pregnancy because it’s past a magic number of weeks and who gives a damn what the actual circumstances are. So yeah, I don’t care what your opinion of that is, not one bit.
A constructive dialogue would be possible if people were willing to talk and listen to each other. The 20 week point is when fetuses may be able to feel pain. I think circumstances do make a difference. Sadly, this all becomes a moot point. Inflicting pain and killing a life just because it is inconvenient/unwanted is what troubles me. Whatever policy views one has, I don’t know how one can’t be troubled by that.
Agreed, and while I sympathize with TV’s Frink’s plight and actually support his stance in those specific circumstances, his purely emotional argument any time someone tries to discuss the topic interferes with any constructive dialogue. To me, the circumstances do matter. Even the time frame, while not enough of a justification for me, is still pertinent to the debate, as you have pointed out, Mrebo.
Frink, I appreciate how much you have shared here. But there is no talking about it constructively because you always get so offended.