Human Rights

[chibi-master]

My, oh my. What a mud wrestling match we have here...:animedepr

Okay, skipping over the seven pages worth of arguments (intelligent or not), I'm going to give my basic opinion. Abortion is wrong, no matter how you put it. It denies a young human (blob or not) the chance to have a life. And I don't really want to base this on religion, as that is a pretty shaky argument.

And rape victims. Well, that's a bit of a hard one. I think it would be better that the person have the child and put it up for adoption. Or keep it, I don't care. And while it may be putting the victim through more stress, it's probably better than putting her through the physical and emotional stress of giving up her baby and possibly damaging her body. Okay, I'm done for now...(*ducks and awaits storm of arguments*)

[Korey]

[quote name='Crimson Spider']
Also, I was arguing in the specific incidents of rape. As far as general emotional state goes, I am very well aware that the instances that spawned the conditions for an abortion are much more likely to be the cause of the emotional state than the abortion itself.[/QUOTE]

[FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"]Speaking from a personal point of view, someone very near and dear to my heart was conceived because of a raping that occurred to her mother over 2 decades ago. Regardless of the emotional state of the abortion, it's ultimately the mother's decision whether or not to abort the baby. Accidental conceptions such as not wearing a condom or just not wanting the baby because of any reason other than rape, I don't really jive with, but if it's rape then yeah, if you don't want the baby, your call. But I think it's been decided in some court case somewhere about abortion and stuff like that.... I may just be pulling this outta thin air, I dunno. :p

[URL="http://www.landmarkcases.org/roe/home.html"][U]The case in question[/U][/URL]

Now as far as the abortion itself, I don't really agree with the emotional state of the abortion being more taxing than the situation the baby was conceived in. I can't speak for women, but I do think there is a maternal instinct in almost every woman and the loss of a child, illegitimate or otherwise, would bring emotional distress upon them. It's kinda silly to say "Oh the rape was more psychologically damaging than the abortion" when....

A) You're not a woman
B) You've never experienced that sort of thing first-hand.

Neither can I, but I'm not arguing one is more psychologically damaging than the other one because I can't peer into someone's brain. It's all subjective to the woman's experiences and how they dealt with those events in their lives. In the case of my dear friend, her mother chose to bear her and give her a fighting chance. Would I have ever known the psychological and emotional stresses her mother went through? Probably not, but I'm sure my friend is thankful for being given the chance to live.[/FONT]