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Originally Posted by raggedyanne
If you believe that an abortion for any reason is immoral and should be illegal, then do your beliefs give you the right to prevent a woman carrying a child with defects - who will die before or soon after birth - from aborting and saving herself the pain of carrying a doomed child within her womb. my description may sound a bit melodramatic, but that's the situation my mom was faced with a few years back. She was able to abort, but I seriously doubt she would have been able to survive the emotion pain of a stillbirth or of watching her newborn die.
And just putting a question out there: When do you think a fetus becomes a "human." My bio teacher asked us this and it spawned an interesting a civil discussion. Let's hope you all can answer the question without dropping below the maturity level of fifteen year olds.
Storaged
The spine, a line, the fetus is mine,
Don't forget me
Don't forget me
Don't forget me
Don't forget revolt,
Revolt,
Revolution, counter revolution
Counter counter revolution
The mind,
Mind the mind that feeds the blind,
And helps you find,
And makes you bind,
The game,
Is on,
The game is on, the game is on,
The game is on, the game is on,
The spine, a line the fetus is mine (x 4)
A life, denied,
Comatosis, comatosis, comatosis,
Comment on my word, define,
My words define, my words define,
My words define, my words define
The line, the line,
Revolution, counter revolution,
Counter counter revolution,
Solution,
Dissillusioned by pollution,
Resolution starting with the
Spine, a line the fetus is mine,
The spine, a line the fetus is mine(x 6).
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Originally Posted by raggedyanne
Beautiful, but I fail to see how it relates to the quoted post.
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It's a song by System of A Down, about abortion. It seemed appropriate because the person quoted was asking us to draw some imaginary lines in the sand and say that on one side is life and on the other side isn't. Abortion talks always end up centering around this, and the lyrics to this song do an apt job describing the idiocy of the whole thing.
Is a single cell alive? If you say yes, then you had better not shower, or move around for that matter, because you'll kill hundreds of thousands of them. What if that cell is in a uterus? What if it starts multiplying? When does it stop becoming expendable material and start to get rights and a name and the title of 'human?' Life, on any level, doesn't fit into the confines of our words. It flows through them and beyond them. Right and wrong don't exist in the gray areas, and sitting around trying to make up rules to salve people's consciences or use them as ammunition--on both sides--for a war over existence is nauseating.