Reply #84: That's precisely what it is. [View All]

[gorfle]

I have a problem interpreting your position as "pro -choice" when you consider it merely a license to kill.

Well, frankly, that's a great, succinct way of putting it. That is precisely what I consider it to be - a license to kill.

I'm not sure how this is "right wing", since their position is that such killing is wrong, whereas I do not.

I note that no one has touched my assessment that there isn't much difference between a baby 10 minutes after it is born and 10 minutes before it is born, and that consequently, any attempt to create a demarcation line prior to birth and after conception is simply arbitrary.

I think my position is the most intellectually honest. I'm not trying to dehumanize unborn humans to make myself feel better about destroying them.

And if you want some more anti-right-wing ammunition, there's this: I think it's the height of hypocrisy that the folks who are anti-choice are also hugely anti-helping-mothers-who-have-babies. Mother a drug-addicted welfare recipient? Too bad - you must have that baby! But when you do, don't expect us to help you or your child in any meaningful way. That is right-wing ideology for you.

In my world we'd have universal health care and sufficient social safety nets so that no mother would ever have to make an abortion decision based on money. If that ever came to pass we'd only be talking about abortions in the rare cases of danger to the mother or rape.

In my view the whole abortion issue is really a symptom of a society that provides insufficient support to mothers and children so that killing is seen as a preferable choice.