Abortion - Is only a religious issue. Abortion is the way to take when there is a bad situation.

You present 2 Scenarios. Clarify them, if I am incorrect. I don't want to assume your point of view. 1. You believe that people shouldn't have kids if they have low incomes. 2. And, If the child may be handicapped then the pregnancy shouldn't be completed either. This is your position right? Even before I tackle your scenarios we need to consider and think through the ethics of abortion. In all the abortion arguments (Pro and Con), there are two main questions. 1. Do human beings possess intrinsic moral value? (Something with intrinsic value may be regarded as an end or end-in-itself.) 2. Is the developing fetus a human being? And an additional question that should come up is: 3. Are humans intrinsically valuable? Internationally the declaration of human rights recognizes the intrinsic moral value of human beings. This would imply that IF a developing fetus is a human being, then the fetus has intrinsic moral value, including the right to life. Back to question #2 above, Is the developing fetus a human being? Scientifically and medically the fetus at every stage of development is a human being. You mentioned DNA, then you understand that is human DNA and once combined (egg and sperm), at conception, all the traits of a human being are determined. I do want to clarify, an embryo is not a baby, but it is a human being at a different stage. It would be absurd to kill a human just because the human being is not at a later stage of life. I think most know that abortions are not performed on embryos. Most women come to know that they are pregnant after two months, so abortion takes place at about 12 weeks or more. Consider this, two months in and the embryo is already a fetus. From two months and on we are not dealing with just cells. Organs are present, arms, feet, circulatory systems are present, but developing. Is kind of hard to say it, but a BABY, is there. Another thing to think about is that from conception to old age we are in different stages of development. To say the least medicine and science verify that a fetus is a human being in one of the developing stages. In other words abortion according to medicine and science should be considered a destruction of an innocent human life. PLEASE NOTICE THAT THROUGH OUT ALL I HAVE JUST MENTIONED IF HAVE NOT APPEALED TO THE BIBLE (religion, etc.), YES NOT EVEN ONCE. The main reason being, contrary to popular believe, abortion is NOT a religious issue. Again back to the first two questions. Question 1. Do human beings possess intrinsic moral value? Is a philosophical question. Question 2. Is the developing fetus a human being? Is a medical/scientific question. Neither one of them a religious. Your Scenario 2: "HOW ABOUT A WOMEN THAT IS GOING TO HAVE A DEFORMED, MENTALLY DESABLED CHILD with HORRIBLE BIRTH DEFECTS. NOT MAY BUT WILL HAVE A MESSED UP CHILD. (we have these new magic boxes that let you see into the body, and we also have this magic thing that looks in the blood for deformities in THIS THING CALLED DNA)" Your point of view is: If the child may be handicapped then the pregnancy shouldn't be complete either. I will further expand on your point of view. Just want to warn you, you are making many presumptions that may even qualify yourself or a loved one as someone that to our standards is unacceptable to society. 1. "Deformed" – From your point of view if a human being from birth is less aesthetically pleasing to your standards, then he or she should be put to death. 2. "Mentally disabled" – From your point of view if a human being is less intelligent than "who", then he or she should be put to death. 3. "Not May but will have a messed up child" – From your point of view a Parent ought not or is unable to love a child just because is a "messed up child." What is your definition of "messed up?" From your point of view all human beings with Down syndrome and aesthetically un-appealing to your standards are less of a human being than you and because of that, the death sentece should be applied. To put it at its worst, because a human being has a 99% chance to be born with Edwards syndrome and may live to only 5 to 15 days or 5, 10 or 20 years, then that human being deserves to be put to death before they come out the birth canal. Just because of statistics.