Abortion and USA elections

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Orwell, until you find yourself unexpectedly pregnant and facing such a decision I suggest you don't comment on what it's like to realise there's something in there growing and hijacking your body. Believe me, you don't feel nothing - it doesn't just grow then pop out. Your entire body changes and your entire outlook - your entire being - changes from that very first day. It's not something to call a weak argument, as you could ask anyone who's ever been pregnant.

As for whoever said my argument was invalid - until you've been unexpectedly pregnant and had to actually go through such a decision yourself, I suggest my views are a little more experienced and a little more pertinent than yours.

And again, can someone anti-abortion please tell me how this is a bigger issue than the brutal slaughter of millions of LIVE, LIVING, BREATHING, LOVED human beings, as is what's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, and will continue long after you leave the area? Or are they not human because they were born in those countries? Do their families love them any less, are they less wanted, are they inferior?

Quite frankly, this anti-abortion thing doesn't make sense.

I believe that an abortion is totally the choice of the pregnant woman concerned. I do not feel empathy for the foetus or Zygote. I am not going to get into a philosophical discussion about what constitutes a sentient life. All I will say is that my mother was 40 when I was conceived, in 1965 this was not a light hearted matter. She decided after some deep thought to continue with her pregnancy. Later in my life I realised that she must have needed to make a decision to continue with her pregnancy and asked her about it. Many people will/would use this to say that had she had the abortion I would not have existed and therefore would have missed out on my life. To me this is completely illogical. If Mrs Sanders had had an abortion that would have been the end of it, No person would have missed out because they would not know anything about it. Someone asked me if it was then OK if they murdered me, because by my rationale once dead I would know nothing about it. My response to this is that murder is completely different, people that are murdered have friends, families, colleagues who will miss and mourn their passing, etc, in other words they had a life, an unborn foetus does not. A foetus is not a viable life form until it has been born, At the developmental stage when most abortions take place many things can occur to naturally abort it. My partner has 4 kids she has also experienced 11 miscarriages, pregnancy does not equal berth of a child. Until an unborn foestus can sustain life independantly of the mother in my opinion it does not have rights.

On the subject of religion if god exists then god knows what is going on and will surely look after the soul of the 'innocent'. Personally I do not believe in souls.

With regard to my original question I find it bizzare that you can vote for a party and president of such an influencial world power based on so narrow an issue, and yes in world terms I do find it a narrow issue.

Some of you idiots (because that's what you are) who base your vote on a single non-issue such as this ought to read this:
http://www.rense.com/general64/du.htm

About Depleted Uranium. About the legacy your ridiculous government is leaving. You say you care about unborn babies? How about voting on the war issue instead then? Because until you stop dropping depleted uranium all over these countries, there will be more and more populations who no longer ask "Is it a boy or girl?" when their child is born - they ask "Is it normal?"

That's what they ask now. Not about the gender - who cares. They worry about if it's deformed, if it's got three legs, if it's got heart problems or can breathe. "Is it normal?". Fancy that.

And you know what? It doesn't just stop when you stop dropping the bombs. It continues in that region forever in the land. In the people's DNA that is forever mutated and changed. It will continue for generation after generation.

And you say you care about unborn children... open your eyes! Afghanis and Iraqis have babies, too!!

*bangs head against wall*

I really really REALLY hate people sometimes.

You're saying you'd base a vote around the issue of abortion over the fact that millions of people are being slaughtered needlessly and will continue to be for millions of years thanks to your f****d up government. That it's ok for babies there to be born deformed and ill and have a s**t life. But that's ok, they're not American, so who gives a s**t right? They're not people, they're monsters! Kill them! Kill them!




Seriously!!

I would happily vote for you if you're unable to use it properly.

I'm going out. This has just made me so incredibly sad that I feel ill. May post again later when I've calmed down some, otherwise I'm going to end up saying things I might regret.

One issue alone is not enough for me to pick one person over another, although I don't support abortion I will take the gay rights, and the better health care Obama will be pushing for.