Are Poverty and Starvation Only an Excuse for Abortions?
Question by : Are poverty and starvation only an excuse for abortions?
When a serial killer of women acts, nobody says that it is OK because he is getting women “freedom of misery”.
It is evident that not all his victims were poor and that murder is not the way to solve poverty.
Is it not evident then that argument, applied to infanticide is only a dirty trick to say that it is compassionate an evil selfish action?
mrwonder:
Are you saying that a fetal person is not a person yet, but something similar to sperm that will become to be a person?
Best answer:
Answer by CAustin II
No.
It’s a perfectly valid and, in fact, responsible justification if you look through the lens of a person who doesn’t consider a fetus equal to a human life.
99% of abortion debate ‘confusion’ could be resolved if pro-lifers took a moment to realize that pro-choicers do not consider an embryo and a baby to be one and the same, and if pro-choicers stopped to look through the lens of someone who thought of a fetus like a baby.
We pro-choicers, for the most part, see the removal of an early-stage embryo or fetus in the same light that you might see, say, an appendectomy – the thing is a potential human, it’s not a human yet. In that light, having an abortion because you recognize that you can’t afford to provide a baby with a good environment is not a whole lot different than deciding not to try to conceive one in the first place – it’s a responsible decision made out of consideration for any future children one might have.
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