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This is a hot button topic so please respect everyone's opinion. If your opinon is so strong that you can't voice it without putting someone else down please respect everyone and keep it to yourself.
My purpose is twofold:
1) To solely illicit analytical thought not to provoke anyone. This topic is often argued from an emotional point of view (with good reason) and it is my desire to approach it from a different angle, that of the secondary and tertiary implications.
2) Relieve the boredom induced by being unable to ride because of a forced attachment to the cube where I make a living.
Ok this is sort of a spill over from the thread in the Politics section, but I would like to see it transcend the 2008 election discussion.
I'll start with my point of view.
I think there is a vast difference between being Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. I believe that pro-choice can also be anti-abortion, it is for me and maybe many others.
I will offer these definitions:
Pro-life - to believe that the unborn have the same right to life as you and I and legislation should be put into place that makes abortion illegal.
Pro-choice - to believe that it is every person’s right to decide what is best for them and their personal well being and medical procedures should not be legislated.
* If you disagree with these or would like to offer up better ones please do. I only provided these so that there would be a common understanding of where I am coming from.
Here we go...
I do not believe it is possible within the context of our legal system to legislate abortion as illegal. To make abortion illegal you must recognize that the unborn has all the rights that you and I have, not just the right to live. What I mean by this is that you can not bestow the right to life but only protect that right from abortion. You must protect and defend that right from any and all threats just as you would any other human being. Thus you would have to be willing to protect an unborn child from it's own mother if she were to engage in behavior that endangered the life of the baby growing inside her.
Thoughts?
This is a hot button topic so please respect everyone's opinion. If your opinon is so strong that you can't voice it without putting someone else down please respect everyone and keep it to yourself.
My purpose is twofold:
1) To solely illicit analytical thought not to provoke anyone. This topic is often argued from an emotional point of view (with good reason) and it is my desire to approach it from a different angle, that of the secondary and tertiary implications.
2) Relieve the boredom induced by being unable to ride because of a forced attachment to the cube where I make a living.
Ok this is sort of a spill over from the thread in the Politics section, but I would like to see it transcend the 2008 election discussion.
I'll start with my point of view.
I think there is a vast difference between being Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. I believe that pro-choice can also be anti-abortion, it is for me and maybe many others.
I will offer these definitions:
Pro-life - to believe that the unborn have the same right to life as you and I and legislation should be put into place that makes abortion illegal.
Pro-choice - to believe that it is every person’s right to decide what is best for them and their personal well being and medical procedures should not be legislated.
* If you disagree with these or would like to offer up better ones please do. I only provided these so that there would be a common understanding of where I am coming from.
Here we go...
I do not believe it is possible within the context of our legal system to legislate abortion as illegal. To make abortion illegal you must recognize that the unborn has all the rights that you and I have, not just the right to live. What I mean by this is that you can not bestow the right to life but only protect that right from abortion. You must protect and defend that right from any and all threats just as you would any other human being. Thus you would have to be willing to protect an unborn child from it's own mother if she were to engage in behavior that endangered the life of the baby growing inside her.
Thoughts?