Saturday, October 24, 2009

Pro-Choice vs Pro-Life?

Can someone who is pro-life believe in embryonic stem cell research?
Can someone who is pro-choice believe that it is ok for a women to have an abortion after 6 months?
Answers:
With every fiber of my being I believe that abortion I wrong. For the "Pro-Choice" types: A choice was already made before she got pregnant. But on the flip side, I don't think there should be laws prohibiting it (any more than we should have seat-belt or helmet laws) nor should my tax dollars be used to fund abortion!
Yes and yes. A pro-lifer can recognize that stem cells are not human beings. There's no real ethical problem unless a person got pregnant for the explicit purpose of harvesting the embryo to create stem cell lines.
Some pro-choicers think it's okay to abort even after labor has started. That doesn't mean it's right, just that they can believe it.
yes and no. I can't believe anyone would believe it is OK to abort after 6 months. Embryonic stem cell research can save lives.
Anyone can believe in anything. Obviously.
Sure, people can believe whatever they like.
Pro-Choice is not Anti-Life.
It's simply putting the choice in the hands of the individual instead of the government. Any woman that wishes to donate an aborted fetus to research should also have the choice to do so, and any research facility should have the right to accept such donations.
No one should have an abortion after 6 months of pregnancy unless the life of the mother is at risk.
Only 1.4% of abortions occur at a gestation over 20 weeks. 59.3% are within the first 8 weeks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:usabo...
I don't fit these 2 molds; I'm pro-abortion.
Pro-choice implies, murder or not, it's just a personal choice.
Pro-live implies it is something that it is not. It's really pro-slavery.
Pro-abortion - for lack of a more tasteful term - regards abortion as perfectly ethical. This is based on this premise: an embryo is a potential human; the mother is an actual human - her life is her's; as are the 18-years post gestation.
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Stem cells sound promising, but are front-loaded w/ hype. So, I really don't know what to think on the efficacy. I hate that this has become the domain of government funding too, rather than private. But it's kind of like the roads (and falling bridges), if they decide to permit it, they fund it; if not, they ban it. The premise is: that which is not forbidden is mandatory.

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