My turn to have a go. And before I start, just in case you haven't read any of my other posts in this section, I am in my seventh month of pregnancy and I fully believe that my foetus is a human life. However I am pro-choice. It is possible to resolve this conflict if you have an open mind.
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Originally Posted by Koga
The vast majority of people who support abortion take that position with the firm conviction that life does not begin at conception. That being said...
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Do you know the vast majority of people who support abortion? I would disagree with this statement, I don't think there are many out there who disagree that life begins with conception. There are varying schools of thought on what `kind' of life that is, though.
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If one personally felt "terminating pregnancy is not an easy thing"
but was the right of the individual to make that "decision" Is the life within the mother's womb a human person?
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Well, that depends on the stage of gestational development.
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If the answer is no, it is not a human person, why would one feel it "is not an easy thing" to do?
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Because if left long enough and bar accident or misfortune it will become a human person. That's not easy.
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If the answer is yes, it is a human person, why would one advocate "terminating" it?
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Because again, it depends on your views of just when during it's gestational development it is considered human enough to make termination questionable.
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If the answer is I don't know, if it is, or isn't a human person, how many more "decision(s)" would one make in an uncertain "situation"?
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I guess you would have to be in that situation before you could answer that.
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If the unborn is not a human person no justification for abortion is necessary.
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No justification for abortion is necessary anyway. Unless to those who ask for it. And mostly not even then.
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However...
If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.
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Depending on your circumstances.
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Nearly all arguments for abortion are based on the faulty premise that the unborn are not fully human.
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Well, many are. And many are not. Each case should be looked at individually.
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However, if you were go hunting in the woods, and shoot at someone, not knowing whether or not it was a deer but thought it was a deer and shot them anyway....
You would be charged with murder. Because despite your unceartainty, despite your rights, you have no right to kill another innocent human being. No matter what the hell you think. If you did a lot of thinking you wouldn't be shooting your gun on a "maybe" in the first place.
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No you wouldn't. You would be charged with manslaughter, or bodily harm occasioning death. Only if there were evidence of malice aforethought could you be charged with murder.
And, to address another point you have raised, does having a penis give you some power of authority over both genders that makes you feel as though you have a right to dictate the behaviour and decisions of all?