Quote (JessiWan @ May 7 2022 10:44am)
It's not my "feelings".
I am sorry that logic sounds like feelings to you.
If it isn't your personal feelings or belief then what is it?
It is my personal feeling that humans need choice and bodily autonomy from their governments. I've been against mandatory vaccines outside healthcare work which is volunteer as well as the choice to refuse medical treatments when they are being forces, the right to refuse feeding tubes during a hunger strike for example (even if the person may die), and I don't support a government using law to prevent citizens form using safe healthcare procedures to control their reproduction. Birth control isn't a failsafe and isn't safe for all women. Giving birth cost tens of thousands even hundreds of thousands of dollars and the people having abortion are the ones who can't afford these things. You are assuming there are families to support these people. Or alternatively put them in foster care systems where excessive trauma and abuse actually occurs while voting against system to make their lives worth living at all. The only people I get excessively paternal are the very old and demented people who have no idea what's going on and can't fend for themselves, I put every single one of them I meet in a nursing home, or the order of dozens and dozens a year.
This is all from my personal belief in values I have which include the right to self-determination, the right to liberty, the right to refuse what groups of people want for you but aren't consulting you about.
These are all feelings and beliefs. If being pro-life isn't your belief or you don't feel strongly about it then why are you here at all?
Quote (JessiWan @ May 7 2022 10:46am)
It's not merely that a zygote is an organism. It's the fact that it's human life. And yes, it's totally worth it to legislate the bodies of citizens so that murder does not happen.
We have laws on the books criminalizing murder, because we as a society decide that murder is wrong. Is that also a "metaphysical belief"?
We also have separate terms for murder and abortion, so our language signifies that they are different phenomena. You can argue it is a type of homicide but you can't murder a non sentient thing, it doesn't make sense.
Abort means to stop before it happens. You are stopping the life before it happens, not killing something that is experiencing a life. Late term abortions yes, but those have nothing to do with R v W.
This post was edited by Skinned on May 7 2022 08:55am