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Originally Posted by Blade
You want to get rid of "unwanted" children huh? Why don't we extend that reasoning? Let's face it, most very old people aren't really wanted, maybe we can enact "choice" for their familes? (Uh, that means the old farts would be offed.  ) And the homeless - obviously, they are unwanted - maybe we can "choice" them too? |
That's a old, tired and false slippery slope argument. I've already said I support restrictions on late-term abortion, and those restrictions strengthen into a ban upon birth.
You may not see a difference between an embryo/zygote/morula/blastocyst and a 70-year-old, but I do.
Maybe you want to live in a world where women are forced to carry unwanted babies or babies with severe birth defects to term. I don't. I frankly don't think that's any of my (or the government's) business -- until the baby develops sufficiently that it can survive on its own, at which point it starts to accumulate legal rights.
A truly conservative approach would be to let early-term abortion be legal, but mount campaigns to persuade pregnant women not to choose that option. Instead, social conservatives want to use the law to force everyone to accept their view of when human life begins.