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There are a lot of things that wouldn't be considered right that are legal. Right is a matter of perspective.
Good point. Society today has so many abstract pieces to it that it gets confusing. It's not black and white anymore. There are so many gray areas as to what is acceptable and what is not.
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Good point. Society today has so many abstract pieces to it that it gets confusing. It's not black and white anymore. There are so many gray areas as to what is acceptable and what is not.
Has it ever been black and white? Society has always been confusing with gray areas.
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3. I find what you said about the doctor who was shot scary. You obviously don't know much about abortion because late-term abortions are only allowed when the mother's health is at risk or the child has been determined to have a serious health problem that it probably won't survive. So he was actually saving lives unfortunately at the expense of some but a woman is allowed to have that choice.
No, he was doing it for anybody and everybody.
Not because the mother's health was at risk, or the child having serious health problems.
He was just doing it for the money, he didn't care that he just murdered a little baby.
Unborn babies DO have consciousness after 15 weeks.
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and the ability to live independently of a sole human being.
And by that logic, it would make sense to be allowed to lawfully kill babies until after the umbilical cord is cut, as all of the baby's oxygen, nutrients, etc are still coming solely from the mother until then.
Brain activity. At 16 weeks, a fetus can not only hear, but RECOGNIZE the sound of its mother's voice and pick out the voices of different people who are regularly around. Its nervous system is already active (meaning it can feel pain) and it has sensory perception enough to see light.
Brain activity. At 16 weeks, a fetus can not only hear, but RECOGNIZE the sound of its mother's voice and pick out the voices of different people who are regularly around. Its nervous system is already active (meaning it can feel pain) and it has sensory perception enough to see light.
Source? I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just curious.
Either way, then why is an abortion before 16 weeks not okay?
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Either way, then why is an abortion before 16 weeks not okay?[/quote]
As I've expressed before, I don't have a problem with abortions performed very early on in the pregnancy. At 10 weeks of pregnancy, when an unborn baby is no longer considered an embryo, but a fetus, that is where I start to have issues.
But that's sort of irrelevent. My post was intended to contest Adean's notion of consciousness and when a human becomes a human being. I believe that happens at about 16 weeks gestation.
Quite a few studies have expressed doubt that the baby is actively conscious until right before birth however, it's not really proven either way. You can respond to your mothers voice but do so in an unconscious state, in a similar manner as responding to stimuli in your sleep.
Quite a few studies have expressed doubt that the baby is actively conscious until right before birth however, it's not really proven either way. You can respond to your mothers voice but do so in an unconscious state, in a similar manner as responding to stimuli in your sleep.
Right, but if fetuses have a subconscious already in place, and they are responding to stimuli subconsciously, then doesn't that show the extent of their mental capacity?
I think abortion is perfectly okay.
For most cases. Like for the fetuses who will be born horribly deformed or retarded in a severely life altering way, or the mothers who can't handle the child.
I don't buy any of the 'studies' that the fetus can recognize it's mothers voice. It is not conscious of where it is, nor who the mother is. I don't believe that everything living has a conscious mind.
Hell, and if we could perform a safe abortion, then by god the mother should have all right to end her pregnancy if she can't handle raising the child (financially, emotionally or physically)
We need to worry about the 'rights' of children already born rather than the unborn.