What do you think about abortion

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It depends. I think it's only okay if both of these statements are true.
1. It's an unplanned pregnancy and you absolutely can't care for children enough to have them lead good lives.
2. The baby is still an embryo, not a fetus--it is terrible to abort it once it actually looks like a baby.

Conservatives are the ones that want to promote the idea that children are parasites. Hence why they want to deny them free health and education.

I, in my case consider an unwanted fetus a parasitic entity, because it grabs nutrients from the host and the host does not want it.


Conservatives firmly believe that human rights begin at conception and ends at birth. I think different, I think they begin at birth and end at death.

I disagree with your premise that abortion is murder.

^ that a woman would choose all those side-effects over a pregnancy is one of my stronger arguments for being pro-choice.

In terms of sheer numbers of deaths, abortion is ten times safer than giving birth. If you want to discuss psychological impacts, at least do me the favor of not discussing the impacts on women as if you are trying to save a child from having to grow up; women, by definition, are adults capable of making difficult decisions for themselves. If they sometimes make decisions that they later regret - and the anti-abortion crowd pretends that this happens far, far more often than it actually does - then it is their right as adult humans to make that choice and to deal with the consequences as adults.

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