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Abortion How do you feel about abortion? Are you pro-choice or pro-life? Defend your views on abortion in this forum.

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Old 02-19-2007, 08:12 AM   #21 (permalink)
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We are killing something. I don't think just because you want it to call it a baby it makes it a baby. I can call a seed an apple all day long, I'm still going to be hungry at the end of day.

As we have seen in war, death row, and on the dinner table, killing isn't always immoral.
...and what your seared conscience will not let you admit it:

There is a HUGE difference between a human being and an apple.


Simply keep your butcher knives away from the unborn baby and let it become what it was intended to become.
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Old 02-19-2007, 08:28 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Wouldn't a woman who has had an abortion be pro-abortion?

She was pro-choice until she made the choice.

I respect the right to choose, I don't think it is something that I would choose.
Pro-abortion connotes that one is encouraging others to have abortions. I don't think that there are too many people in the world walking around with signs saying END YOUR PREGNANCY NOW!!!

Seriously, I expect that even a woman that has had an abortion would respect that she made a choice and others would not make the same one. That would make her pro-choice not pro-abortion.

I don't think that I could even have an abortion, but I respect another woman's right to make that decision for herself.
Old 02-19-2007, 11:12 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Pro-abortion connotes that one is encouraging others to have abortions. I don't think that there are too many people in the world walking around with signs saying END YOUR PREGNANCY NOW!!!

Seriously, I expect that even a woman that has had an abortion would respect that she made a choice and others would not make the same one. That would make her pro-choice not pro-abortion.

I don't think that I could even have an abortion, but I respect another woman's right to make that decision for herself.
Interesting. I like it. Now I have a question: You say that you could not have an abortion. Why not.

I'm going to guess you would feel bad about it. Close? Well there's a reason you feel bad about it. So obviously there's something you oppose about the idea of abortion. Now that we've established that, you say you respect someone else's right to choose. But if there is something about abortion you oppose, does it bother you at all that others choose it anyway?
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Old 02-19-2007, 04:27 PM   #24 (permalink)
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...and what your seared conscience will not let you admit it:

There is a HUGE difference between a human being and an apple.


Simply keep your butcher knives away from the unborn baby and let it become what it was intended to become.

A god fearing soldier?

Time to send Jefferson back to school:

A seed is to an apple as
A) jesus is to God
B) a 5 year old is to a 40 year old
C) a zygote is to a baby
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A god fearing soldier?

Time to send Jefferson back to school:

A seed is to an apple as
A) jesus is to God
B) a 5 year old is to a 40 year old
C) a zygote is to a baby
Ha, interesting way to look at it.
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So obviously there's something you oppose about the idea of abortion. Now that we've established that, you say you respect someone else's right to choose. But if there is something about abortion you oppose, does it bother you at all that others choose it anyway?
I, personally, would also not smoke cigarettes nor ride a bike without a helmet - but I respect others' right to choose whether to do so or not.
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I, personally, would also not smoke cigarettes nor ride a bike without a helmet - but I respect others' right to choose whether to do so or not.
Those things have the POTENTIAL to take another "life," but that's not the intent of them.
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A god fearing soldier?

Time to send Jefferson back to school:

A seed is to an apple as
A) jesus is to God
B) a 5 year old is to a 40 year old
C) a zygote is to a baby

Ridiculous comparisons...

A see is to an apple as jesus is to God?

Jesus is to God as a 5 year old is to a 40 year old?


It's a redundant question to ask what the h**l you've been smoking.
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Ridiculous comparisons...

A see is to an apple as jesus is to God?

Jesus is to God as a 5 year old is to a 40 year old?


It's a redundant question to ask what the h**l you've been smoking.
He's just stating that the first has the potential to become the latter, but it's not guaranteed.
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He's just stating that the first has the potential to become the latter, but it's not guaranteed.
...and NONE of it has ANYTHING to do with the fact that abortion kills babies.


It's just another attempt to salve a seared conscience.
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