Ok. Focus. Quick Opinion on a Huge Subject.I've been reading few books lately on the philisophical debate on abortion. Not the christian debate, the philisophical debate. There is a difference, the Christian debate is easily refuted with the simple claim "Not everyone is a christian!". And there you have it, your an idiot, dont push your religious agenda on others.
Here's the thing, I beleive that it is impossible to say that a fetus isn't a living being. It grows. Period. Tell me somethign that isn't alive that grows. Coral? alive. Chia Pet? Mostly alive. Tree? Pretty Much Alive. Zygote? Definetly alive. As far as i know, no one will say that a tree isn't "Alive".
Ok. So from there you see that a sapling tree is growing but it is ok to cut it down. Why? Because when the full potential of growth is realized the tree is unable to think or move. Big surprise huh? You already knew that, but with that reasoning I say that since a fetus becomes a human being then it has the full rights guarunteed to it by our Constitution.
Go further into it. On the same premise that a liberal fights for a Homosexual mans rights to marry the one he loves you can say being born is a right. The Declaration of Independence says that we are entitled to three inalienable rights, "Life, LIberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." On that premise once we are a fetus we are entitled to grow and be born as a sovereign being. To deny life to anyone of any age is to deny a civil liberty, something the ACLU doesn't seem to get.
If you are truly pro-choice than you would not be apposed to the belief that once a child is born you would have up to two years after the baby is born to kill it at your own discretion. The theory is that the infant is not self-aware and that until it is so has not obtained personhood. The infant is indeed a member of the human species but not a person and therefore rights are not applicable.
If you truly supported the foundations of abortion than you should have no problem with the euthanizing of a mentally handicapped person. Using the guidlines set from such philosophers as Peter Singer, the chair of Ethics at Princeton, the handicapped person has no self-awareness and there-fore has no right to live.
You might say that thats ridiculous but still maintain that abortion should be legal because the act of birth itself is where personhood is attained. But with that thinking you are only saying the infant is a person because it is cute and cuddly. And cute and cuddly does not make you a person. Some (sighting the bible no less) believe that it is the first breath taken by a infant that instills them with a soul and therefore person hood. My question of that account is that if a premature infant is on a respirator till its lungs are strong enough to handle breathing on its own, is it ethical to kill the infant then? I dont think so.
Abortion devalues human life, when you make life expendable it cheapens life. Life is the first inalienable right endowed by our creator. Where the hell is the ACLU when they are actually needed?M.R.
