Abortion (Is it OK) Part II

Hopefully it turns out OK (unlike Part 1). REBUTTALS "Abortion is morally permissible as a fetus does not have consciousness thus making the act not cruel" It is actually unclear whether babies feel when they are aborted or not. There have been many horrifying occasions where, having taken the pill too late, the mothers have HEARD the cry of the almost-dead baby. This makes everything seem more real, right? It makes the people realize that women are the productions of life; that the baby is life, and the fetus becomes that baby. [. http://www.mccl.org....] You might say, 'aborting a baby who's no farther along than the 1st trimester doesn't effect anything because the fetus is. .. ' This is awful because there I so much pain involved anyways. Abortion of an unconscious fetus might not seem cruel, in terms of the physical pain for the new human, but you do not KNOW how much physical pain, and guilt, a mother feels after doing abortion? Here is the story of a 21 year old woman who went through the process of abortion: "I went to the clinic to get more birth control. I had run out and was off for maybe a month. They asked if I wanted to be tested (for pregnancy) and at first I said "no""being sure I wasn't pregnant. I changed my mind after finding out it would only take a couple minutes. When the nurse came back in and told me I was pregnant, my life instantly felt unreal. I was frozen in shock. For some stupid reason, I had believed it wouldn't happen to me. My boyfriend declared on many occasions before this that he would get an abortion, and yet even that I didn't truly believe. I couldn't say the words to him, so I just showed him the papers. He instantly demanded an abortion. I don't blame him for not wanting the child. I was scared out of my mind"not only because I wasn't ready financially and mentally"but because I was scared of being alone. I decided I wouldn't bring a child into this world if one of us didn't want the baby. I thought, "How can I make a decision for the both of us? " I didn't want to ruin his life. I knew I'd regret getting the abortion, but I don't think I ever knew what regret was before. Every day I regret it. I find myself constantly saying sorry. I took my child's life away. I didn't even give my child a chance to live. It doesn't matter if I was scared or even if the child wasn't wanted. It wasn't my choice to let the child live or die. I made the mistake of having unprotected sex, but to kill my unborn child because of that mistake haunts me every day. I can't take it back. I keep imaging how much I would have loved that child. Every time I see a pregnant lady or a child at all, it breaks my heart. If you are thinking about getting an abortion, stop thinking about your own life because it's not about you anymore. Think about the child, because its the child's life you are dealing with. " [. http://www.abort73.com...] . http://www.abort73.com... (Read the descriptions written in dull) . http://www.abort73.com... (Watch the video on site) This website here gives some easily mistaken facts about abortion, please read them. . http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org... . http://www.youtube.com... The question is, is abortion taking away important and useful life? As you said, ". .. a fetus does not yet value its life, and taking away this potential human is not necessarily detrimental to society as a whole. It may be argued they could be a great person, but they could also be a bad one, and using this logic it would be immoral not to have as many children as possible because one of them could be a great genious. " By the way you spelled "genious" wrong. This is not the same thing AT ALL, and saying 'you would have to have as many children as possible' is utterly irrelevant to abortion. Abortion is not a matter of morality, rather of justice. It's fine to have as many kids as possible but even if every woman in this world had 5 children, all the abortions happening would barely be made up. Our society is killing the next generations, 137 human beings killed every hour [. http://www.all.org...] and the most common reason is because of the 'life of the mother' exception, either financially or even death-threateningly. These mothers aren't sitting down to think: the only way for humans to come and be on this earth is through them and their wombs, and life is valuable because of this. If we know what a pill can do (stops the life in a woman) why do we choose to let that do that to us? Abortion cannot be justified in any way. We are stopping so many chances at life because of a simple pill that too many women consider, and sadly, they underestimate it and think it's a simple process. Abortion shouldn't be legal because. .. "If it had been legal in 1958 my best friend probably would have been aborted in a heartbeat. And the people who would have encouraged her parents to do it, for economic and health reasons, would have thought that they were doing what was best for the other three children. Please tell that to her husband, and her two kids, and any children they will have down through the generations. " Abortion is too easy and pressurized and "simple" because. .. "When you can trot a woman down to the nearest "clinic" and have her baby killed, then you are devaluing her and having power over her. Abortion is a soul-killing act. 64% of all women who abort state that they felt pressured into it. I have talked to many women who regret their abortions, but never have I met a woman who changed her mind who ever said she wished she had had one. What I hear instead is that they can"t imagine their lives without this child. Women are inherently in their nature nurturing. Abortion completely goes against all that is natural for women. " The reasons pro-life believers think abortion is wrong is because. .. "Of course, both men and women oppose abortion because it is the taking of a human life, and in doing so at the rate of 1.2 MILLION ANNUALLY, all other human life is devalued. We should all be concerned about that. I have seen this argument used with increasing frequency lately. I am guessing it"s yet another tactic to take the debate off of what really goes on during an abortion, and keep the debate in the realm of catchy sound bites. Since the slogan "It"s a woman"s body" has been disproved by science (it"s a child"s body that gets destroyed), and the "It"s just a blob of tissue" has been completely obliterated by ever-improving ultrasounds, and finally, the "It doesn"t hurt anyone else" has pretty much played itself out on the evening news and is apparent in the total disregard for all human life in our society, I"m just assuming this is the next, and hopefully final, slogan to be trotted out. " SOURCE: . http://www.standforlife.net.... "Women have a 1/3 chance of sexual assault, in this way abortion is justified. .. " REBUT: . http://afterabortion.org... This concludes Round 2. You may rebut anything I said or/and any website I listed.