LAST EDITED ON Dec-20-17 AT 05:59PM (MST)[p]"Late term abortions seem horrific to me but that gets into the whole viability argument and opens a can of worms that has never been settled."
If aborting late term is horrific, it seems you're part way there. Apparently the age of a fetus is some how more important to you than it is to me. I can't see any difference, between a day old fetus, a late term fetus or a year old child. It's all the same to me. I won't call that cognitive dissonance but some might, that may be why it's never been settled, because it doesn't seem logical, to me, to find late term abortions horrific and early term abortions as non-horrific.
Lumpy,
"Tad high and mighty on people who vote democrat, there are many, many pro abortion conservatives who are not from the religious wing of the party."
I consider pro abortion "political" conservatives as abhorrently as I do "political" liberals. Absolutely no different expect for the Political Platform that the "political" conservatives must be misrepresenting the truth, when they say they support the Republi-can't Platform. Regarding "non-political" conservatives and liberals, I have many friends of both, I am comfortable making my political views known to them, and a more than willing to have them share theirs with me, if they chose. I don't go looking to talk politics but it does some times come up, the same as other ideology topics, but if it does come up, we can remain friends or not. I have lost very very few friends over my political or ideological views, I have never rejected a friend over his political or ideological views.
"So if women who have had abortions should be tried for murder, what happens to the guy who supplied the semen? Should he be tried as well? Or should the guy have a right to tell a woman that since she is carrying a child he fathered that she no longer has a right over her own body and she must carry the baby to term?"
If it were up to me, I would charge a woman for murder if she had an abortion. Same as I would if she murdered one for her children. Not difference in my mind. If the guy supplied the semen, with the consent of the woman, she jumped off the cliff when she gave her consent and she alone is responsible for then choosing an abortion. After she gives here consent, it is, from that point forward, her responsibility to accept the consequences. Just as it is, if she chose to leap from a cliff, once she choices, she must deal with the consequences. If the guy supplied the semen against her consent, I would hang the son of a b!tch.
Regarding T's position, respectfully, I know we'll not agree but I can not see the difference between mental illness and highly disabled fetus and children. Killing then in the womb or outside the womb, before or after birth is no different to me. I know others believe there is a difference but I can not see how. So, in my mind, if you can or would kill a fetus, any fetus, why can't you make the same argument for killing them when they are a year old, or twenty years old. From there I believe people could justify killing by gender, as they did in Asia a while back? I've seen some abortion supporters speak very highly of Stephen Hawking who would have been considered by many as a financial liability in the womb or during his youth, as one example of someone who might have started out as a liability but end up contributing a great deal to society.
Now, T, if we are going to live entirely but the law of the jungle, the strongest, and only the strongest, survive, I can understand your statements. I can't imagine that you want to live by that law but if you do, then you are right, kill anyone that is a financial/food/sex/shelter/mobility liability to you. That is the bottom-line to your line of thinking, in my mind.
I don't believe you're a pig. I think you enjoy provoking people to look internally and see our own internal conflicts based on what we say as opposed to what we do. We are all flawed, as you admit. Your a smart guy that is a deep thinker, I like that, even if we disagree often, ideologically.
One more thing NE, if and only if a woman's life is in danger, as determined by a team of medical professions, it is the woman's choice to decide whether she saves her own life and sacrifices the life of her child, or visa versa, the same as she would if they were standing in an intersection, and she could only save the child or herself from sure death, by a vehicle. Clearly her choice and tragically, men and women are forced to do just that, on rare occasions in our world.
I think I've shared this one other time on MM, I'll respectfully decline doing it again, twice is quite enough I think, but I won't refrain from saying why I won't vote for a Demo-ist........ or that I'll always vote for the lesser of two evils, from time to time, as I deem appropriate.
Respectfully,
DC