Do you know of any good pro-life/pro-choice books? I'm particularly interested in books in favor of pro-choice because I honestly have never heard any good arguments supporting abortion.
Checkout Robert Spitzer, I saw him give a talk on how "euthanasia" creates a statist duty to die, I'm sure he has something on how killing to make it easier to get a diploma is a mistake.
>>7589181
Then why would you want to read books pro life? If you don't understand the pro choice viewpoint you should read up on that.
I think it's bad to kill babies.
>>7589197
probably to help defend or understand his own stances
Human life begins at conception.
>I've never read a convincing argument supporting abortion
That is your problem, not the argument's problem. It's very simple, you don't even need a book.
>humans with two x chromosomes have this thing called a uterus
>when the uterus recieves a sperm while it has an egg in it, sometimes it makes an embryo
>sometimes this happens when the human doesn't want it to, much like getting a cavity in your tooth
>luckily, in this day and age, there is a medical procedure to help!
>>7589216
Human life begins at ejaculation. Masturbation is murder.
>>7589224
wait you're pro life? then why did you say you've never heard any good argument supporting abortion?
>It is totally not murder to decide to end the life that is growing inside you
>You committed murder by killing the life that was growing inside the body of your gf
Giving women the authority to decide when it is and when it is not murder is a bad idea.
>>7589227
But anon a fertilised egg grows whereas a sperm cell on its own simply remains a sperm cell.
>>7589227
Sperm by itself isn't going to develop into a human being.
Everyone should just die desu
here's a Catholic, Muslim, and Atheist debating abortion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_VYvZ2Pad4
>>7589238
Except for me.
>>7589254
http://youtu.be/fUspLVStPbk
>>7589230
In the rare occasion that a pro-choice person does talk to me about abortion they usually resort to terrible arguments like it's a parasite, just a clump of cells, it's my body I do what I want, or they may even take their views to logical extreme and support infanticide.
>>7589254
A sex cell alone isn't a human life, it simply remains a sex cell unless fertilised. A fertilised egg is an actual developing human.
>>7589230
Pro-life is against abortion
>>7589265
Pro-choice "logic" is beyond stupid. Unless you think that killing humans is always morally acceptable it makes no sense to be against killing while making an exception for prenatal humans who are magically okay to kill.
>>7589282
If you can show me one instance of a sperm developing into an adult human I will repent.
abortion, particularly "free" abortions are a good method of soft eugenics (look at who gets abortions)
>>7589282
>I am an idiot who is not part of the evolving gene pool and I'm scared of other people continuing to understand greater depths of basic concepts beyind my comprehension
Please respond >>7589225
>>7589280
Why does it have to be ALWAYS morally acceptable? There are some instances in which killing a human would definitely be the right thing to do.
>>7589303
>I am a heathen who worships Satan and hates human life
Yesterday it was contraception. Today it's abortion, masturbation, and same-sex/mixed race "marriage." Will it be widespread euthanasia tomorrow? Then what...? Once abortion and masturbation is universally accepted, what logical arguments will stop euthanasia and other forms of murder and brutality?
>>7589301
Some people would argue that it actually benefits society because certain races like blacks get abortions at disproportionate rates.
I don't think this works because with the availability of abortions people are more likely to act in promiscuous ways and they may be more likely to forego contraception because "hey I can just get an abortion if I really need to". The problem is that most women that do consider getting an abortion choose to have the baby instead, so what happens is they act in slutty ways thinking they can just get an abortion but they usually end up changing their mind. I think this is why there's such a crisis with black families and the skyrocketing number of black single mothers.
>>7589311
I agree that there are morally acceptable reasons to kill people like in defense or the defense of other people but is there ever a morally acceptable reason to kill an innocent person?
>>7589317
I am pro-euthanasia/assisted suicide. You are the Dark Ages-borne Savage here, my friend.
Read:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21279/21279-h/21279-h.htm
>>7589325
poor people are fucking stupid and will fuck anyway
see: Africa
>>7589235
>sperm needs human to put it in the uterus to develop
>embryo needs human to give it life support to develop
Why are these different?
>>7589349
It just is, okay?
>>7589181
>I honestly have never heard any good arguments supporting abortion
muh sanctity of life
>>7589349
>baby needs a human to give it food to develop
Why can't we kill babies?
>>7589370
Well you can give them away. Most states in the US have "safe haven" laws that let you drop any infant under the age of one year at any hospital, police station, fire station, or courthouse eith no questions asked. You can also choose to put the child straight into the foster care system, from birth.
These are options for women willing and able to go through a pregnancy
>>7589370
Why can't we kill babies?
>>7589377
A parent is legally obligated to provide a child with food and shelter, dropping off an infant at a fire or police station fulfills this obligation because it insures that the child will be taken care of.
>>7589360
[citation needed]
>>7589386
Uh huh. And so does getting an abortion before your body becomes irrevocably altered and you possibly die
>>7589181
>because I honestly have never heard any good arguments supporting abortion
Have you tried Roe v Wade, or is that too advanced?
>>7589370
So you ARE saying that masturbation is murder?
>>7589386
>I must provide for my child, otherwise people having faith in the laws will fine me and throw me in jail where I would totally be able to provide for my child
liberal logic 101
>>7589370
>Why can't we kill babies?
it is not that we cannot kill them.
women feel bad if they kill their babies when they must pay financially for it
=>killing babies is good as long as it is free for them.
Hope you don't masturbate senpai
And I hope you have bareback sex often
>>7589386
Have you seen how deplorable the DHR system in the USA is? The best way for a quick, painless adoption where the child isn't in foster care or protective custody as an infant is to do a private, now considered illegal adoption.
That was how my grandfather was adopted.
I befriended a few kids in DHR, one because she was an awesome individual, the other was a family I used to pet sit for that fostered children [weirdly enough they fostered my friend for a few months]. She was never adopted, even though she has been in foster care since infancy.
Most people go out of the country to adopt because it so much cheaper and easier and without redtape that honestly makes no sense. Also, even if the biological mom is fucking insane, unless she kills anyone, she can get the kid back at a moments' notice, even if the kid has been with their adoptive family for years.
That is why I don't consider adoption a valuable option, specifically in the USA. Most kids fall through the cracks, rotate foster homes until they turn 18, then are shoved out the door with a $200 Visa gift card and nothing else to their name.
>>7589325
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>Some people would argue that it actually benefits society because certain races like blacks get abortions at disproportionate rates.
not in france, where proud emancipated white women love to abort their babies, since they love more to spread their legs.
>>7589418
Then why not free birth control? That would be cheaper. It takes two to tango, and it is easier to chemically control a woman's chances, so she has to bear the responsibility. Why must she bare all the financial burden of contraception too?
Also, I don't agree with women having to pay such high prices or taxes on menstrual care items. It is an obvious scam of the two major companies for money.
There is nothing more unnatural, disgusting, barbaric than a woman shoving a knife into her womb and massacring her own child.
Abortion, contraception, pornography, any music/film/art/literature that promotes extra-marital sex --- should be illegal.
>>7589377
Because DHR in the states is sooooooo wonderful.
>>7589433
>Also, I don't agree with women having to pay such high prices or taxes on menstrual care items.
Then use a washable rag. They're products of convenience, not a right.
but even if you don't masturbate some leaks out on its own
you do know that ? Anon do you even have a dick?
>>7589445
>Contraception
So you've never masterbated before? I doubt that, seeing as you're on a Laotian kino imageboard.
An embryo is not a baby.
At what point an embryo becomes a baby is tough to say and comes down to, personal beliefs.
>>7589451
>Products of convenience, not a right
>Just use a rag and wash it
>All of the stains will come out
>Use a rag for 5 days
I don't think you've been around menstruation or menstruated before. A wet rag is not going to cut it. And it is a right to have them, because men would complain about women getting blood on the furniture and dribbling when they stood up.
I'm not saying they should be free, I'm saying companies should not have a monopoly and there should not be a tax on them. There are other items like that, why not these?
It seems to me that a lot of this argument hangs on determining the point at which a collection of mindless cells becomes a human being; in truth, this is a moot point, because there really is no such determinative moment. Rather it would appear that rather than spontaneously "becoming human", a humans "personhood" sort of fades in over time. This process of "fading into being" couldn't even really be said to be complete until the brain is developed enough for more advanced cognition and memory (or what we would think of as true awareness)- so really, until age 5 or so (and this is just an arbitrarily chosen age for the same of this argument) even an infant can't really be said to be a "person".
My personal stance on the argument? Undecided, but I have a large degree of contempt for abortionists.
>>7589463
>tough to say
>human life arbitrarily appears at some point
>that means we should assume that it's okay to kill prenatal humans without any benefit of the doubt
Get outta here kid
>Adoption is a great option!
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/the-dark-sad-side-of-domestic-adoption/275370/
>>7589424
I'm sure it is terrible and in badly need of reform and support that. I think it's a separate issue from abortion because when you start looking at abortion as a way to fix or help mitigate the problems of abortion in America you have to argue that it's okay to kill people in order to save them from the possibility of suffering later in their life.
>>7589470
But what about the 12 or so weeks when it is on the same cognitive level as a fish?
>>7589181
>I honestly have never heard any good arguments supporting abortion.
Well, honestly now, have you sought them out? There are very compelling reasons to be in favour for the choice to abort.
Personally, I believe self-sovereignty, as in ownership of your own body, necessarily entails the right to abort a freeloading fetus.
>>7589475
>humans are okay to kill if they haven't developed arbitrary ability xyz yet
Oh boy
>>7589469
Suppose we don't know when life begins and there is a lot of doubt, shouldn't we default to the earliest theorized point in order to protect human life?
>>7589265
If that's your conception of what the opposite sides arguments are about, it's pretty damn evident that you have no interest in their viewpoint.
Learn about the principle of charity.
Furthermore
>it's my body I do what I want
Is actually a very, very good reason. You don't have to share blood with a fetus if you do not want to, much in the same way you do not have to donate blood if you don't want to.
>>7589455
Some leaking out on its own could be classified as involuntary manslaughter, still killing a human being but without malice. A lesser charge could be applied, perhaps a year in prison + penance.
>>7589446
I'm not OP. I am pro-choice because I know how absolutely abysmal the life of an unwanted child is. I am also the parent of a toddler.
>>7589467
And I happen to use cloth pads! You rinse them when you take them off, some people soak them in diluted hydrogen peroxide. I wash them with the cloth diapers right now, not sure what I'll do when I don't have that heavy duty laundry going. Anyway I've been using the same 8 pads for almost a year now and they do usually have the faintest shadow stains, but they change over time (like that didn't come out the last wash, comes out the next time, and the stain from the most recent use lingers a bit instead)
I'm going to try a silicon cup soon once I figure out which size and density I need
>>7589482
>Is actually a very, very good reason. You don't have to share blood with a fetus if you do not want to, much in the same way you do not have to donate blood if you don't want to.
Both parents knowingly engage in an act where the natural consequence is creation of a child. Parents are legally obligated to provide their born children with shelter and nutrition so why shouldn't those obligations be extended to the unborn? The uterus is designed to provide shelter and nutrition to child whose only difference is that it's in an earlier state of development and the type of nutrition and shelter is different.
>>7589480
The problem is this: if we were to decide that, then jacking off would be mass murder.
I would have killed billions.
In all seriousness, couldn't we then say that the material which will be used in producing sperm cells is also an unborn human? So then even an individual protein could be called a human being. This line of thinking does not bode well for ethical discussion.
>>7589325
All the girls I've discussed this with are terrified of having to get an abortion because they personally know girls who got one and found the procedure traumatic, and this was at a famously progressive university. Only huge idiots and hubristic cunts think abortion is a good trade off for skipping contraception.
>>7589478
>I can't understand embryology because I'm ignorant to this biology subject, don't want to educate myself on it, so I will dismiss your statement without counterargument.
>>7589470
It's "okay" to kill people in war, and those are most definitely people.
>>7589500
You're just all backed into a retard corner. Birth control is wrong, premarital sex is wrong, abortion is wrong, it's a shitty pit to be in and I can see why you're trying to spread the misery. No one has fun or accomplishes any self-discovery living that lifestyle.
>>7589505
>if we were to decide that, then jacking off would be mass murder.
I don't know why people keep repeating this. Life begins at conception because that's the point where it has everything it needs to develop into an adult human. A sperm or an egg separated and by themselves will never develop into a human. I wish a more biologically literate user would come and explain it.
>>7589488
Where do you buy cloth pads? I've never seen them. Can you just make them out of certain material or do they have special materials?
I am wary of the cup because I'm unsure how to measure the size as far as how much it needs to contain.
Interesting that the 2 women in the thread so far are both pro-choice.
>>7589506
Still, the women choosing to have abortions are more scared of childbirth than they are of the abortion procedure, and that is their right.
Seriously, I think every single pro-life dude should be forced to get a vasectomy. They are reversible after all. It's so selfish of you to want your woman to mess with her hormones, which directly affect her brain chemistry, in the name of remaining not-pregnant. You should take the responsibility yourself.
>>7589515
I never argued against birth control or premarital sex. You're bringing a lot of baggage into the conversation and I don't see how it follows that being against abortion means you live a particular lifestyle or don't have any fun.
>>7589181
Yes, you should read philosopher Don Marquis essay "Why Abortion is Immoral"
Short summary of his argument:
http://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/SKerstein/140s09/marquis.html
Marquis' Anti-Abortion Argument
Assumption: It is typically seriously wrong to kill us (adult human beings). (189)
What makes it wrong? Here's one central thing: killing us deprives us of the value of our future. It deprives us not only of what we value now and would have, given our current predilections, valued later, but also of what we would have come to value. (190)
A few implications of Marquis' account of a central wrong-making feature of killing: (Marquis takes these implications to bolster account. (190))
- It is seriously wrong to kill children and infants. (191)
- It is not the case that only biologically human life can have great moral worth. (191)
- It might be seriously wrong to kill some currently existing non-human mammals. (191)
The Future-Like-Ours argument (192-193): Depriving a being of the value of a future like ours makes killing it wrong. Killing a fetus deprives it of the value of a future like ours. So killing a fetus is wrong.
>>7589515
Exactly. Contraception, mixed race schools, businesses, marriages, etc. abortion, women's "rights" it's a vat of misery and deception. But fortunately salvation is always an option.
>>7589506
>All the girls I've discussed this with are terrified of having to get an abortion because they personally know girls who got one and found the procedure traumatic
This is a lie that other women perpetuate and ressurect from time to time. Like those chain emails that pop up every few years.
http://time.com/3956781/women-abortion-regret-reproductive-health/
>>7589524
For starters, abortion does not affect only women. Every aborted child has a father as well as a mother. If a women chooses not to have an abortion, the father can be required to provide child support for 18 years. Why should he have legal responsibilities but no legal rights?
Furthermore, almost half the children aborted are males. Every male is a former fetus; every male born since 1973 is a former fetus who could have been legally aborted.
It is difficult to think of any other situation where someone has seriously suggested that only those who might commit a certain act have a right to an opinion on whether or not it should be legal. Would you say that only white people have a right to an opinion on racism, because only white people owned slaves or lynched blacks?
If only women have a right to an opinion about abortion, then only plantation owners have a right to an opinion about slavery.
>>7589518
But why does an embryo have more value than the individual cells which would eventually make up that embryo?
Sperm cell (A) and egg cell (B) will become embryo (C), which becomes a human being (D).
A+B=C.
>>7589520
I bought mine through a co-op on Reddit's /r/clothdiaps, saved me a ton of money. You can find a lot of brands on Etsy.com or cloth diaper websites like Nicki's or Diaper Junction. Amazon has some choices too. The vast majority are absorbent cotton or microfibre backed with PUL (a polyester fabric laminated to be waterproof)
The group "Cup Love" on Facebook has phenomenal files for helping you choose the right cup. I'm actually overwhelmed by how good the guide is, it's going to be a time-sink for me picking my first one lol. "Mama Cloth Love" is the group for pads, but I don't think it has 'necessary' information like the cup group
>>7589536
Exactly. Denying the genetic value and human rights of each individual sperm is literally no different than being an abortion-promoting slut waving her communal gaping maw at any man that will look at her.
>>7589524
I'm not pro life at all, and was in fact saying that abortion is not often going to be a factor in someone's decision to use contraception or not.
There are less invasive and more reliably reversible methods of female contraception raided the pill, like nuvaring and IUDs. I actually share your opinion about the pill causing unnecessary collateral damage and have encouraged (extremely close and they brought it up first) female friends to drop the pill for those reasons. Girls I know who've switched off the pill after being on it for years say they feel a night and day difference in their mental clarity and emotional resilience.
That said, I'll be first in line when there's a male contraceptive method that doesn't have a 20% chance of leaving you with permanent genital pain.
>>7589535
Son, I think you need to take a Geometry class and review proofs. You have a really strange grasp of logic.
Women get to choose what happens inside their bodies. Men get to choose what happens inside their bodies.
I think there should be a document a couple can obtain at a courthouse that says "We, the parents, acknowledge that I fathered this child through consensual sex. I have asked the mother to abort, and she said no. I am now waived of all legal responsibilities and ties to this child." Basic fucking men's rights
>>7589541
Thanks for the tips, I'm sick of paying $8 per package until menopause in 30 years.
I was already planning on using cloth diapers [I was raised in them] when we have kids sooner than later, so I'll go ahead and look at those websites.
I still think menstrual products should be tax free, or the sales tax for them specifically goes to women's health or something for kids.
>>7589552
I actually got pregnant the month after I stopped using NuvaRing because it was making me have separation anxiety sob session three times a day.
My best friend and I got positive pregnancy tests on the same day. We went to planned parenthood together for the confirmation tests.
She scheduled her late-term abortion of a baby afflicted by FAS, and I scheduled my dating ultrasound.
She photographed my daughter's birth.
>>7589545
But that's silly. Incredibly so. Because then any element that could possibly make up any part of a sperm cell must also be treated as though it has the value of a full-grown human being.
It is futile to determine at what point a developing person gets their "worth".
>>7589555
>Women get to choose what happens inside their bodies. Men get to choose what happens inside their bodies
More of this "my body my choice" nonsense. The truth is you don't have free reign to do whatever you want with your body. If you tried you cut your arm off you would be arrested, if you tried to kill yourself you would be arrested. There's many things that you're not permitted to do with your own body, and on top of that the fetus is not your body, it it's own body and it deserves legal protection.
>>7589533
It's not regret in the sense that they wish they'd had the kid or want to kill themselves or anything like that. It's a creepy, invasive procedure, and at the end of the day they have conflicts that they know aren't entirely rational. Child birth is one of the biggest events in a woman's life and many of them look forward to and romanticize it from a young age. Do you really think that going through a bunch of hoops to put that off isn't going to raise issues for some women?
This isn't off a chain email. I'm talking about elite-educated women talking from personal experience. Hell, this gets discussed on NPR, hardly a bastion of bible-thumping. I'm not pro life, and abortion is the right choice for many women who still feel some conflict over it, but ignoring these issues does those women a disservice. We need to be looking at what causes these feelings and how they can be best resolved.
Faggot
>>7589570
>the fetus is not your body, it it's own body and it deserves legal protection.
This! Individual sperm also deserve legal protection.
A Defence of Abortion by Judith Thomson offers some good philosophical thought experiments on the matter
>>7589280
>morally acceptable
Nice spook, my property.
>>7589574
Definitely true. A lot of their internal conflict is no doubt caused by the creeping feeling that Jesus is weeping at the loss of their souls. Those women will no doubt burn in Hell for the rest of eternity. It's definitely a shame.
>>7589570
>if you did X you would be arrested
That's a terrible argument. We make the laws of the land, not the other way around.
>>7589578
Fuck of Christnigger
>>7589575
Yeah, the protein that makes up the cell also deserves a human right to life!
>>7589578
3spoopy5me, anon
I'm from /x/ and you're showing your stupid
>>7589181
Cover looks like goatse
Honestly, all this morality stuff is so pointless.
There's only one really important argument about abortion, and it's this: even if you ban it, people will do it anyway, like they always have. They'll go back to unsafe traditional remedies and methods, or backstreet abortion clinics. Infanticide will rise (it was pretty everyday among common people in many societies until pretty recently).
voluntary abstinence + antinatalism
only answer
GOATSE hahahaha
>>7589589
One could debate this point statistically. When abortion was illegal in this country, most illegal abortions were done by licensed doctors. (Secretly, of course.) Relatively few women were really injured or killed. In 1972, the last year before abortion was legalized, 39 women died from illegal abortions. That's 39 tragedies, of course. But with legal abortion today, many women are still injured and some die in botched abortions. If abortion was illegal, fewer women would have abortions, so the total number of injuries and deaths might well go down.
But all this is really beside the point. It does not follow that an act should be made legal because some people might suffer harm while breaking the law. No doubt some bank robbers are injured or killed in automobile accidents while fleeing the scene of the crime. Does this mean that we should make bank robbery legal?
A rational society does not make laws for the convenience of law-breakers.
This is one epic ruse my friends.
>>7589574
>I'm gonna speak for women
>This one chick that is supah smaht says her buddies supposedly got abortions and supposedly they regret it
It's not like you're never going to have a child again. You'll have one that is planned and loved from the moment of conception. Are you also trying to say that adoption would not result in regret as well? Why the fuck do you think almost 60% of domestic adoptions are "open"?
>Child birth is one of the biggest events...
Oh shut up. Stop assuming we all want to get married and live in the 50s style nuclear family. I consider the biggest event in my life would be to get published. We do eventually plan to have kids, but I'm not a lesser person if I don't give birth. Even a mentally disabled woman can give birth. You're insinuating a woman's prime motivation in life is simply to exist so the next generation can.
My kids will be my priority in life, but I'm not going to toss away my own motivation and let my child suffer in poverty if I got pregnant without planning for it.
>>7589595
>A rational society does not make laws for the convenience of law-breakers.
Yeah, fair point, I guess actually what I said is never going to be compelling to people who genuinely believe embryos deserve legal protection.
I'll fuck off again then, no point trying to debate this shit really.
>>7589595
That depends on if you feel they are breaking a law.
I could contend an unwanted child should be against the law.
My mother works in a hospital. She works in neo-natal intensive care. Taking care of 10 drug-addicted babies at the same time probably makes a good case for abortion. Not that the kind of person who does crack while pregnant cares about the well-being of their shit-for-genes womb-lice.
>>7589467
That is definitely not what a right is, or the confines of what a right would be defined as. Do you think the big bad Men are the only ones that would have issues with hazardous dead tissue leaking out of your pants?
Also, they really aren't that expensive. A package of off-brand pads or tampons is typically less expensive than a meal at Applebees or some other mediocre restaurant. Do you buy your tampons with glitter? Food is more essential than a wad of synthetic cotton, but we don't get food for free.
>>7589610
>My kids will be my priority in life, but I'm not going to toss away my own motivation and let my child suffer in poverty if I got pregnant without planning for it.
Yea someone tried to talk me into aborting with this logic. Had an anecdote about how she aborted a child and ten years later had another with the same man, only this second kid was going to get to grow up in a house they owned and get a nanny and go to private school and university. "First baby died so second baby could have thus great life"
It actually convinced me in the opposite direction. How fucking heartless, to honestly say it was ok for one child to die so another could be raised in a condition of affluenza. Disgusting.
(Not trying to attack you, just sharing thoughts)
>>7589626
>Taking care of 10 drug-addicted babies at the same time probably makes a good case for abortion.
I wouldn't consider it a good case because I don't think it would be fair to kill an innocent life just because they may suffer later in life. To be fair I'm not 100% sure on the statistics because I'm going off memory but I believe child abuse rates have actually skyrocketed since abortion was legalized, you would think it would follow that the rates would drop but it hasn't.
>>7589641
It's a very first-world mentality, isn't it. It's okay for some people to suffer and die as long as someone somewhere is living the high life.
>>7589626
This, I am an RN.
During clinicals I had a night shift in a NICU. There was one tiny drug-addicted infant. They gave him what medication they could, but nothing could stop him crying, because he was hurting. All I could do was walk up and down the hall for hours cradling him. He still cried, but wasn't turning blue from it anymore. The mother had left him inside the lobby glass doors of the emergency room. She was wearing a hood, they could not find her.
This traumatized me. It's also why I don't work in NICU. It hurts doubly. Not only are they in pain, they are lonely. Only the hospital staff knows or cares about the infant's pain.
>>7589645
Yes, abortion and sexual revolution were a pandora 's box, it didn't help anyone, but it hurt many.
In fact there is post traumatic abortion syndrome.
>>7589641
Or we can have both children suffer, a marriage fall apart, a mother working 2 jobs and the children not being raised, so they turn to crime to live and lose their lives behind bars.
Because the third world mentality of having so many kids so you can replace the ones that die in infancy is so superior?
>>7589636
>We don't get food for free.
I never said free, I said without monopoly or tax.
I don't live in a state that does grocery tax. Also, I don't eat out at Applebees, I cook. Most of my meals I make at home probably cost less than $1 per serving.
>>7589652
They ought to make kids like that wards of the state, rather than leave them with the type of parent who would hurt them like that.
I could never do that job. Takes a certain kind of fortitude, I think.
>>7589668
He was surrendered, she had used the "safe haven" law. But this law also makes it to where if they have drug-addicted babies, law enforcement cannot pursue or convict her for abuse.
>>7589181
Aren't you kind of blind sighting yourself by choosing a book by desired outcome? It's as if you're only looking for confirmation rather than actually opening yourself to new ideas.
You should look for a book on general abortion, perhaps something with short stories from both perspectives, then draw your own conclusion.
I'm exclusively a fantasy reader and I've heard numerous (sub)stories in which a woman is raped or has a child too young. The child is then abandoned, neglected, mistreated or just ends up living a rough life because he is missing a parent or just wasn't cared for enough. Only here (on adv) have I heard of cases where a raped/young mother has an abortion, later has a(nother?) child, then lives on contently (though you'd probably have to talk to someone much older than the demographic here to get a less biased, more reflective view).
What you're just as like to learn from is some sort of mother child pick-one-to-survive story, where a now single father raises a child because of a sense of duty. Obviously that's not enough and the child turns out moderately sad and then its left to you to decide if it would have been better to save the mother and have another go at a kid later on.
>>7589676
It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't type of law because without that protection the crackhead may have just dumped the baby in a dumpster. That is a terrible woman that deserves punishment but least the kid has a fighting chance now.
>>7589610
Please learn to read. I never said this was a blanket statement that applied to all women, and I never said that child birth would be the single biggest life event, just a very large one. If it doesn't apply to you then you do you, but letting the women who don't respond well to abortion slip through the cracks because acknowledging then somehow hurts your pride is not the answer.
Lots of medical procedures have complications. People develop personality and cognitive changes during chemo, but acknowledging that and advocating research and treatment for it doesn't mean I want to ban chemo or shame people who get chemo treatment.
I'm saying we need more post-abortion care for some women who get them, not that we need to have fewer abortions.
>>7589690
Lots of that in these issues. Damnation either way.
>>7589698
But those women aren't as popular as you think. As that study posted before shows, women do not regret it or feel deeply traumatized.
Birth itself is traumatizing. That is what most of my friends who have given birth have said. I'm the RN above and I've attended births and it is a tumultuous event with emotions [not just happy] everywhere.
If she needs counseling she needs counseling. Most women who get post-partum depression don't have a special procedure or support for it. Unfortunately, they often have to fork out money for a psychiatrist.
Maybe there should be women-specific hormone/neonatal/miscarriage counseling in OBGYN centers. That would be nice. But if we keep wanting to defund Planned Parenthood [an organization that would be capable of setting up programs like this], then the situations will perpetuate and women will suffer in silence.
>>7589729
Why the fuck does everyone keep coming back to acting like I'm arguing against abortion? I just hate how people claim there's no way you can feel bad after abortion because the bible thumpers saybits more common than it actually is. Very obviously a group like planned parenthood could help make the kind of monitoring/counseling I'm talking about available.
>>7589729
>But if we keep wanting to defund Planned Parenthood [an organization that would be capable of setting up programs like this], then the situations will perpetuate and women will suffer in silence.
You say that like people are trying to defund PP because they don't want women to receive proper medical care. I personally don't want taxpayer money to fund them because I pay taxes and I don't want that money to support abortion, and I don't think taxpayer money should go to an organization that turns around and support political candidates like they did recently when they gave Hillary Clinton's campaign 20 million dollars.
If they stayed politically neutral and stopped providing abortions they could have all the money they want, I wouldn't care.
>>7589451
In Australia there are a number of "essential" items, like food, that are not taxed.
The discussion then is "why are condoms essential, but not tampons?"
>>7589433
No one is giving anything away for free. Besides the cost of birth control isn't the main issue. The problem is getting access to birth control since they require an oddly temporary prescription (in Australia, or so I'm told).
>>7589595
A rational society supports itself and its members. Ready access to sexual education and safe contraception and abortions is beneficial to society.
Protecting unwanted fetuses is not beneficial to society.
>>7589758
How is abortion beneficial to society? The number of single mothers and the rate of child abuse has skyrocket since abortion was legalized. The pragmatic eugenics argument just doesn't hold up.
>>7589751
>my taxes pay for abortions
No, they don't.
The 1977 Hyde amendment to Title X states that federal taxes cannot fund abortions, except in the case of rape or medical issues.
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/05/429641062/fact-check-how-does-planned-parenthood-spend-that-government-money
>>7589758
>A rational society supports itself and its members.
Even those that are unwanted
> Ready access to sexual education and safe contraception and abortions is beneficial to society.
It already isn't. It's harmful to women and of course children.
>Protecting unwanted fetuses is not beneficial to society.
It is since it is supporting virtue instead of vice.
It's also often necessary due to economic problems that arise out of an unbalanced age pyramid.
>>7589767
>No, they don't.
>except in the case of rape or medical issues.
You just said it does
>>7589767
There was also one that was supposed to stop sale of human parts and see where's it's brought us
>>7589765
>The number of single mothers and the rate of child abuse has skyrocket since abortion was legalized.
Gonna have to see some scientific literature to back that claim up. Said stats should also contend for the sheer increase of population.
>>7589765
[citation nedded]
>>7589777
The number of illegitimate births have risen since abortion was legalized
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16299880\
Child abuse has risen since abortion was legalized
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1384900851/relationship-between-induced-abortion-and-child-abuse
Rise of single motherhood
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/18/the-unbelievable-rise-of-single-motherhood-in-america-over-the-last-50-years/
These aren't the only sources mind you.
>>7589767
He does have a point that Planned Parenthood is very politically active though. Hadn't even thought of that one but it's true.
With regards to taxpayer funding of abortions:
1. PP does refer people to abortion clinics, which many take issue with, semi-legitimately.
2. I know some real crazy people who valourize women and girls who refuse abortions that could save their lives or when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. Those women are martyrs to these folks.
>>7589772
A baby has all of its organs outside of its body and dies instantly upon birth. Or some other horrifying double recessive genetic defect and it dies in the uterus.
That is what I mean. You seriously think in situations like that the fetus should be carried to term? That's horrifying.
>>7589776
It's not as simple as that. What should we do with an aborted fetus that the mother selected to abort? Incinerate it? Hold a full-fledged funeral?
If that fetus cannot have a life, at least let it provide service in its death in scientific trials and research and save millions of people yet to be born. They also cannot do this without the mother's consent.
http://www.snopes.com/fetal-tissue-sales/
Did you know most of your vaccines have a genetic code that stems from two aborted fetuses in the mid 20th century?
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/human-cell-strains-vaccine-development
>>7589796
>2. I know some real crazy people who valourize women and girls who refuse abortions that could save their lives or when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. Those women are martyrs to these folks.
I think most prolifers would be okay with letting the baby to save the life of the mother in one of those "must kill one to save the life of the other" type of situations. As long as any treatment done to save the mothers life isn't done with the intention of killing the baby then it's okay, like if a doctor had to give a certain medicine that would save a woman during pregnancy but would most likely kill the child that would be okay because the intention isn't to kill the child, that's just a side effect of the necessary treatment.
>>7589796
Because they are martyrs. They are putting lives of others before their own lives.
Also 404 when
>>7589792
>Illegitamate births have to do with abortions
I don't understand. They were born. Their mother did not get an abortion, so this is a correlation = causation.
I could have a lineup of 8 morbidly obese people and notice all of them are wearing sweatpants. Therefore, I conclude obesity is caused by wearing sweatpants.
>>7589811
Yes vis absoluta makes abortion justified.
But for example incest isn't vis absoluta.
>>7589797
>That is what I mean. You seriously think in situations like that the fetus should be carried to term? That's horrifying.
A child born of rape or incest is completely innocent. You suffering a wrong doesn't give you the right to kill an innocent life.
>>7589555
>>7589524
There is a line somewhere between taking responsibility for my actions and taking responsibility for her decisions.
Yes, in the case that he wants the child and she doesn't, it's her house her rules. But if he doesn't and she does, as it stands, he is forced to financially back her play for 18 years. In addition he is unable to change his mind (even if the mother is incapable) and fight for custody for the child, even though he backed her play.
Basically the father is given no choice, then deprived of the consequences of that choice. (Though this has less to do with abortion and more to do with child access laws).
Back to the case of the father saying no; what harm does an abortion really do? If there is no physical cost, shouldn't the woman have to consider the man's decision; his lack of financial and child rearing support, into her decision? that would be just.
I'm not saying that she should be forced to abort, but if she doesn't, and she has been told "no" upfront by the man, he should be able to walk away scott free.
>>7589811
It's not most pro-lifers, you illiterate. Just a few, mostly catholic weirdos who have decided that abortion is literally always a mortal sin. The problem is that despite their small numbers, they are very active and vocal, exerting an outsized influence on the movement.
>>7589821
>Moving goalposts to evade my point about painful birth defects
Do you know the mental trauma of carrying a rapist's child to term. No, I don't think you do.
The incest abortions relate to medical issues. Families that practice incest to the point of conception are often already mentally disabled, and that has a chance of passing on to the infant, who suffers.
>>7589567
you're saying the 10,000 chickens and cows I slayed to get this far were wrong too? were the plants okay?
>>7589832
>she has been told "no" upfront by the man, he should be able to walk away scott free.
I absolutely agree, and said as much in one of my posts that you linked to..
>>7589834
>Do you know the mental trauma of carrying a rapist's child to term.
Would it be as traumatic as ending an innocent life?
>>7589852
In many more real and gritty ways than e medical procedure to remove a small bundle of stem cells, a woman's rape and the birthing of unwanted rapist spawn kills innocence
>>7589833
So do you object to the reasoning or did you just want to rant about religious people?
>>7589852
For most women it's not
>>7589852
Yes, because you feel you're worthless after being raped. Then, forced to carry a constant reminder of your rapist, you have to go through the tribulation that is pregnancy and giving birth.
Essentially, you feel that your life has zero value. The embryo put there against your will is worth more than you, you have to sacrifce everything because of the crime of someone else. It isn't your fault, but you cannot escape it.
>>7589852
>life
>collection of cells
You like salads?
>>7589840
No, I'm saying it shouldn't be a factor in the abortion argument. I'm not taking either side.
>>7589857
It's kind of tragic that you think like that because there's a lot of people that are born of rape and other unfortunate circumstances but they grow up to be wonderful people and they could even be reading this right now. Don't they have a right to life just like everyone else?
>>7589665
>Most of my meals I make at home probably cost less than $1 per serving
That's not just tax free, there's some massive subsidising going on there. The tax you do pay is going toward food.
>>7589866
When do you think life begins? If you really think about it we're all just a clump of cells at every stage of out development.
>>7589872
>Don't they have a right to life just like everyone else?
Apparently their mother does not, according to you.
>treads of capitalism literally lubricated by the blood of dozens of third worlders
>all life is sacred from the moment of conception anon :^)
>>7589859
I object to telling people that they can't be mad at planned parenthood because it only funds activities you think are okay (exams that end in abortion referrals, abortions for extreme circumstances), while ignoring that the angry people never thought that was okay and haven't changed their minds. Not ranting, just pointing out why that statement about the limits on abortion funding doesn't placate a lot of people.
>>7589852
Would it be more traumatic to be assaulted and then forced to care for the assailant's baby for 18 years, or to be assaulted and then have a minimally invasive medical procedure done in the aftermath? Seems like an easy choice.
>>7589280
What makes us human is our ability to reason, or rational part.
It is inhumane to deny the creation of a new rational agent.
However, it may be humane to destroy the life of a human without reason, one who will be in a constant state of suffering due to his detachment from his own humanity.
>>7589878
Wait a minute, who killed the mother? I thought we were talking about children born of rape and incest.
>>7589879
Yes, middle-American Zionist-Christian-reactionaries are silly. Good job.
>>7589885
>I object to telling people that they can't be mad at planned parenthood because it only funds activities you think are okay (exams that end in abortion referrals, abortions for extreme circumstances), while ignoring that the angry people never thought that was okay and haven't changed their minds. Not ranting, just pointing out why that statement about the limits on abortion funding doesn't placate a lot of people.
I can't really make sense of what you're saying because I never told anyone they can't be mad at Planned Parenthood, in fact I support people being angry at PP so it's kind of baffling.
>>7589842
>..
yea, theres a bunch of branching arguments in this thread so I linked for some context. I disagree with the guy talking about vasectomy and responsibility as well some subsequent posts.
>>7589890
The mother died inside after being forced to birth a rapist's spawn. She might even take matters into her own hands and make her death obvious to an outside observer, too, if she's especially daring.
>>7589872
I actually have a good friend who was the product of rape. She had a miserable childhood being molested by her rapist father, and battles suicidal thoughts daily.
>>7589876
Life begins at when a being has the means to perceive and uses that to start forming a personality. Which most definitely doesn't happen at any time in the womb.
>>7589852
>Would it be as traumatic as ending an innocent life?
Would an abortion be as traumatic to the baby as the mother slitting it's throat one night because it has his eyes?
>>7589914
I am a woman, and the bit about vasectomy was satire, meant to suggest how foolish men talking about women's bodies sounds, by making you hear a woman talk about a man's body the same way.
>>7589921
Actually it does happen in the womb.
>newborns can recognize their mother's language
>newborns can recognize music that they heard whilst in utero
>activity of a fetus is an excellent indicator of activity levels later in life
IMO abortion becomes "wrong" past 24 weeks, which is the youngest a baby can be born and have a chance at living a normal life
>>7589927
implying that the discussion is about womens bodies and not womens decisions
>>7589944
Um, we are discussing a medical procedure done on the body. We are discussing a human female's right to make a medical decision regarding her own body.
>>7589940
Recognition isn't the same thing as consciousness. Animals can recognize sounds and movements they're trained to, but we kill them all the time, and only a few extremists call it murder.
Babies come out more or less the same way with more or less the same level of activity. In reality, babies don't start being anything more than a complex cellular structure until 1-2 years.
>>7589952
and his life.
Which I think is unjustly disregarded.
We're going in circles, I made my point.
>>7589927
This kind of attitude that only woman should have opinion about abortions is silly because it's like saying only slave owners should have an opinion on whether slavery should be legal.
>>7589965
Have you ever actually met a newborn? They have distinct personalities. Some babies try to crawl away from their swaddles and stupid little hats from the minute they are born, some stay in swaddles until they're a year old. Some babies will sleep almost around the clock, while others stare at you and scream bloody murder if you put them down.
>>7589965
Why is consciousness what gives you the right to life? A sleeping man is unconscious but like the fetus, he has the capacity for consciousness. They both in a temporary state of unconsciousness.
>>7589971
No, it isn't, because slaves to not occupy their owner's abdomen and kick their ribs and bladder and suck up all the calcium out of their bones and teeth.
In fact, slaves and slave owners are completely discrete human beings! Much like a mother and child, once the child has been born!
>>7589974
I've met many. I come from a very large family and have been one on one with at least seven. Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to statisticians, that's a substantial amount of evidence against you. To digress, all babies act more or less the same, whether cryers or not. One thing you see when around a newborn is that the light of cognition has yet to come on. They've yet to become truly human.
>>7589984
Because a sleeping man has formulated a personality, a sleeping man may have a family or friends. A sleeping man has still become human. An unwanted or unneeded baby has no family, and has yet to process a complex thought.
>>7590001
Would you agree that an unborn baby has the capacity to form a personality and form friendships and create a family? If so I think the analogy holds and consciousness can't be the determining factor in whether a being has the right to life.
>>7589995
I'm not entirely sure what we're discussing any more. I acknowledge you are entirely correct, a newborn is not truly conscious, as a toddler who has completed the sensimotor stage of development is. Still, there is a MILE of difference between the brain of an 8wk fetus, a 12wk fetus, a 22wk fetus, and a 37+wk full term INFANT. The brain of a newborn infant has developed some perceptions, even life-long memories such as music/mother tongue, as I mentioned
>>7590012
No, i wouldn't agree that it has the capacity, but I'd agree it has the potential, given enough time to formulate a personality.
>>7590012
Sex/gender of a baby becomes apparent at 49 days post-conception.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead said you reincarnate 49 days after death.
Checkmate, atheists!
>>7590021
>but I'd agree it has the potential
That's what I mean by capacity. The sleeping man isn't conscious in that moment but it is an eventuality just like the unborn.
>>7590012
Random clumps of amino acids have the "potential" to become life.
You can't base everything on potentials, you end up with infinite "what-ifs?"
>>7589974
Plenty of times. Differences in response to stimuli or lack thereof is not a sign of consciousness.
Some chickens cluck incessently. Some allow you to pick them up, others flee. These differences in behavior are a sign of sapience? Of course not.
>>7590030
>Random clumps of amino acids have the "potential" to become life.
>You can't base everything on potentials, you end up with infinite "what-ifs?"
I'm no biologist but I don't think you can just take a vial of amino acids and dump that on the ground and expect an adult human to develop.
>>7590012
Break it down to a purely scientific level, and say that everything that exists or has a "right to life" needs to earn that right by performing a service. Animals have that right because animals are a part of the ecosystem, a cog in a great machine. Humans on the other hand earn that right by performing a service to the human race, and that service is consciousness. That might sound a little mechanical, but I think it's generally true. As such, a baby performs no service. It has the same potential that all humans have, but it still, as yet, doesn't exist on the same plane as a fully realized being.
>>7590027
A sleeping man dreams, a being with no consciousness, no perceptions, doesn't. A tree doesn't, which is living but unconscious.
>>7590041
Would you take this to the logical extreme and support infanticide? If so I can't against it.
>>7590035
My point is where do you draw the line? If you're talking about "potential," then doesn't that apply to gametes as well, since they have the genetic potential? That line of reasoning is faulty.
Also
>I'm no biologist but I don't think you can just take a vial of amino acids and dump that on the ground and expect an adult human to develop.
Was pretty much how life started, minus the vial part. Humans thus resulted from it.
Why are white males always terrible authors?
Did you know:
Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion. Twenty-four percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.
From 1973 through 2002, more than 42 million legal abortions have occurred.
On average, women give four reasons for choosing abortion. Three-fourths of women cite concern for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.
In other words, abortion is always caused by social conditions and almost never because of incest or rape.
>>7590055
The line is drawn at conception because that's the point where it naturally begins to develop into a unique human being.
>>7590053
Not for no purpose, no. That doesn't serve the human race. But potentially scarring a fully realized being for the purpose of a clump of cells, or even a being that lacks consciousness, does no service either, it's even counterproductive.
>>7590057
Sure, abomination.
>>7590071
A child doesn't become self aware until about 16 months after it's born and you can't really argue that a newborn baby is providing a service to society, especially if it's developmentally disabled or has a high risk of genetic disease so you should be okay with ending its life for the betterment of society. A newborn baby hasn't earn its right to life in any meaningful sense. If you go the pragmatic way you have to support infanticide.
>>7590079
>But they don't have a consciousness.
They have the capacity or potential for consciousness. A sleeping or reversibly comatose man is unconscious but he has that potential for consciousness just like the embryo or fetus so you can use consciousness as a determining factor of whether a being has the right to life.
>>7590075
>Dostoevskiy
How boring. Even J.K. Rowlilng, authoress of children's books Harry Potter, is a better writer.
>>7590088
A newborn, born to parents that are not at risk of losing, does provide a service. I'll concede that a baby in that position provides one service, and that service is the potential to become a realized being.
>>7590079
>But they don't have a consciousness.
Claiming that one must perform functions that make one a person before one can be considered a person commits the fallacy of confusing cause and effect. You must be a person first before you can function as one, just as you must be a human first before you can function as one.
>>7590102
Wouldn't the unborn provide that same service?
>>7590102
>Potential to become a realized being.
Like sperm or ovum?
>>7589181
WHY DID OP'S PICTURE HAVE TA LOOK LIKE GOATSE
>>7590146
A sperm by itself has no potential to be a human being.
>>7590098
There's nothing wrong with that opinion, War&Peac is boring as fuck
>>7590149
Yes, it kind of does. Without sperm there is no human being
>>7590149
Then why waste spilling your seed into a sock when they should be fertilizing eggs?
>>7590172
Nope, sperm by itself will never develop into a human being. It's biologically impossible.
>>7590057
>>7590178
>asexual reproduction is biologically impossible
>>7590185
You're absolutely correct. Asexually human reproduction is impossible.
>>7589280
>the fetus is a human being
Oh boy, here we go.
Btw, nicely done, OP. You did it.
>>7590178
No, but without sperm, you can never have a single human being
>>7590178
But without it, you cannot have a human being.
See how your logic is working against you?
>>7590205
>humans miraculously arise somehow after sex
>>7590224
It contains genetic material vital to making another human, so yes it does
>>7590229
You're totally misunderstanding what potential means in this context. Something only has potential to be a human being if left alone to naturally develop. A sperm by itself will never develop into a human being just like a drop of blood will never develop into a human being even though it has the genetic makeup of a human.
>>7590218
>humans start where I say they do
You still haven't gave a convincing argument showing that the cygote is a human being. Good luck with that, there's already a lot of trouble dealing with the very notion of human being.
>>7590310
Why wouldn't a zygote be considered a human being? It has everything it needs to develop into an adult human being.
>>7590330
You can take a clump of cells from the cheek and make another human [cloning].
>>7590367
Actually they take the cells and implant them into an egg that way the cells act exactly a sperm cell would, so really it's just another form of conception.
>>7590376
Where do you draw the line? Can you freeze zygotes and claim them on your taxes? Are the people doing IVF that abort non-viable embryos murderers?
What about women who take the morning after pill? They are preventing an embryo from implanting to the uterus. Is that abortion to you?
>>7590431
Anything that stops the development of a human being after conception is murder. That's the only logically consistent position to take.
>>7589181
What kind of world do we live in where its "the woman's choice" to kill a baby?
>>7590445
I cannot tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
You know fertilization happens in the fallopian tubes, and a woman can take a simple OTC medication to stop it from implanting.
I fail to see how that is murder or irresponsible.
>>7590247
Wow, it's almost like Aquinian concepts are hopelessly inadequate and outdated when it comes to describing modern biology or something
>>7590445
>Anything that stops the development of a human being after conception is murder.
You do know that there is something called spontaneous abortion, right? This happens quite a lot, in fact. That would make God one of the biggest murderers of all time
>>7590463
Taking that medication is a deliberate act designed to stop the development of a human being, that makes it an immoral action. Parents are obligated to care for their children and provide shelter and nutrition, even the really tiny and really helpless.
>>7590474
People naturally die in all stages of life.
>>7590486
>Provide shelter and nutrition
And if they don't have enough money for said shelter and nutrition but have the baby anyway that is better?
>>7590497
So should we sue mother nature for murder then? Since, in your words, 'anything that stops the development of a human being after conception is murder.'? Does that mean that God broke his own commandments?
>>7590513
Yes it is better. I don't think it's fair or moral to kill people because may suffer later on in life. Every innocent human being has a right to life regardless of their financial situation.
>>7590522
A child naturally dying a natural death was not murdered. In order for it to be murder there would have to be a deliberate act designed to end the life.
