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Originally posted by The Unforgiving
I'm not going to force any force any women to carry a child that she doesn't want, but I won't support their decision if they want to do abortion either.
In my POV, a fetus is a living being and that is it. Just because it doesn't have a conscious mind of its own, doesn't mean that killing it is okay.
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But being pro-choice and pro-life is and should be strictly legal and literal. It should be whether a woman can make that choice and follow through with her decision regardless of what it is.
The ethics of abortion are kind of a totally different discussion and shouldn't impact legality.
But I also don't find it unethical.
Also, when does killing become okay? Most animals we use for sustenance and for resources that help society as we know it operate also don't have conscious minds of their own but are alive by all definitions. Really, even plants are alive. Where is the cutoff? This is why I take issue with people discussing abortion on the basis of life, or when life exists and therefor should not be terminated. How much life needs to be there, what definitions must it fulfill, and why do people feel this / where do the implications lead us?