Originally posted by: Arnie.d

Originally posted by: daveytod
who the hell said I had any opinions on abortion one way or the other? I think Ive bben misquoted

Than why did you say you wanted Sean to die? I thought it was because of his "thank you for not aborting me!" pic and the discussion that followed. What is your opinion on abortion?

I am too lazy to go back and see if that was what daveytod told Sean to die about or not. I think tod is generally fairly hostile towards Sean, as are a many other members around here.

Anyway, whether you thing aborting is wrong or not, surely we can all agree that saying that someone should have been aborted, or that it was a mistake that someone was not aborted because they have some sort of deformity or any other reason is pretty rotten. All theistic or atheistic beliefs aside, it puzzles me how abortion can be accepted. No matter how you spin it, it is a human life. Even more staggering is when the same "Oh my gosh!! You can't club baby seals!!!" people also go about saying it is a womans right to kill a baby human, as long as it is living inside her. Does that mean if we remove the unborn baby seal from its mother first, then clubbing becomes fair game? No matter how you spin it, if you really stop and think about it, it is what it is and there is no disguising that.

But even worse than this is someone else judging if someone should have been allowed to be born or not. Even the implication that someone should have been aborted for whatever reason is several steps to far. If you want to kill your own children, do as you will. But I swear if anyone were to ever say my child should not have been born, I will make them wish with all their heart that their own mother had aborted them.

And as far as the argument about so many women dying from illegal coat hanger abortions, that is tragic, don't get me wrong. But that is almost like saying that it is important to legalize murder, because so many murderers end up getting shot while running from the police, and if murder was legalized these tragic deaths could be avoided. If you were to count one life as being as important as the next, then which life is more important? The life of the mother who dies from a botched back alley abortion, or the life of the baby that was the victim of the back alley abortion? Maybe a better solution to the whole thing would be to make sure the mother knows how dangerous illegal abortions are, and that if she goes through with giving birth to the baby she will never have to so much as look at it, before it is taken away and handed into the arms of someone who really wants it. She should also be informed that having sex does in fact make babies, that no single form of birth control is 100%, and that without birth control the risk of pregnancy is rather high. Oh, and one more thing that she might ought to be warned about, men don't get pregnant, and some don't give a damn if you do, which is a good reason for carefully selecting who you sleep with.