Originally Posted by Wow Civic
They actually do a C-section on a pregnant woman, take the baby out, snip the cord, and then they shove a sharp metal rod through the baby's head. Sounds like something out of a horror sci-fi movie, huh? It's called abortion, folks! And it's legal in the great U.S.A.!
You make a lot of assumptions. Too many.
Lets get something straight here -- murder is wrong. Killing a human is wrong. There isn't a sane, reasonable person in the world who doesn't agree with that. Anyone who thinks murder is okay is dead wrong. (This point may spark a debate on capital punishment; if so, I welcome the debate.)
I do not think the scenario you describe above is morally permissible or any other kind of permissible. Its wrong. And yeah, I'm a little bit angry with you for suggesting that I'm comfortable with the idea that its okay to kill baby humans.
So how do I justify my pro-choice attitudes? There is specific, measurable brain activity that indicates that a fetus has transitioned into a human that thinks and feels. When this threshold is crossed, I think abortion is not morally permissible. Before this threshold, I think abortion is morally permissible.
And, for what its worth, this is the reason that I think it was okay that Michael Schiavo disconnected the feeding tube to his wife's body.
The idea that a two-week old cluster of cells and hormones is a human life is, in my opinion, incorrect. It is a belief drawn directly from religious convictions, and I don't accept that United States law should be written on the basis of that belief.
You need to stop making wild assumptions that anyone who identifies as a liberal is exactly the same, and you definitely need to stop slinging crap at me. If you want to know what I think, ask, but the implication that I'm comfortable with the idea of shoving a metal spike through a baby's brian is fucking incredibly offensive. You need to back off.