I want to put this thread up because of the danger I see in abortion becoming illegal. Before any of you pipe bomb or sniper my house, allow me to explain the pro-choice argument.
First of all, no one is "pro-abortion." That's like calling someone who supports the Iraq war "pro-killing-iraqis." Abortion is extremely sad and a last resort. No one is going "hee hee hee let's get pregnant so we can kill our child!" It doesn't work that way.
Secondly, to make a base for my argument, Exhibit A: My cousin, Eric Jeton. His parents were college kids just "messing around," but the young woman became pregnant.
She now faced a horrible choice: kill her child, or put him up for adoption through a broken system that subjects unwanted children to physical and sexual abuse.
She chose the latter. Eric, who was lucky enough to be adopted by my aunt and uncle soon after going up for adoption, now lives in a psychiatric hospital, in a rubber room, in a straightjacket, because of all the times he's tried to kill himself. He has clinical paranoia. The doctors say he'll never fully recover.
Why does he have this paranioa? Is it genetic? No, my friends, his illness is brought on from the unbelievable psychological stress of knowing you were not brought into this world by parents who truly loved you. It's a biological fact that in the first week a child becomes extremely attached to their mother, and upon learning that she did not want nor love him, he became increasingly depressed. At 13, he was smoking pot. At 14, shooting smack and snorting coke. By 15, LSD had been added to his spectacularly dangerous and expensive daily drug coctail.
Now tell me this: is this a life worth living? He clearly doesnt think so.
Now my respsonse to the ridiculous argument that the reasonable punishment for sexual intercourse is a child: if the punishment for this activity is a child, then we can conclude that we were meant to be gay, because this "punishment" is not vested upon the homosexuals in our society. This obviously cannot mesh with your creed, so that argument is out.
Furthermore, Republicans have a nasty habit of citing the Constitution when it suits them and changing it when it doesn't. Now I am not for gay marriage, but the Constitution is clearly pro-choice. Where, you ask?
Well, in the most important part, where it states the purpose of government (this can also be found in the Declaration of Independence) the Constitution states that the purpose of government is to protect the basic human rights of American society: Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. This also states that these rights are bestowed FROM BIRTH. Not from conception, from BIRTH. Q.E.D.
The next argument you present is that God condemns abortion. For starters, no he doesn't. The practice hadn't been invented 2,000 years ago. Furthermore, the Bible states that the only entity allowed to take life is the State. This would seem to prove our point, because the government allows abortion, and lo and behold, the majority of abortions are performed with money from Medicare, which is, in fact, a government institution.
Even though Ephysians 12:6 states that your true enemy is authority and corrupt rulers, the Bible (or at least the New Testament, which is what I'll stick with because the two Testaments contradict each other too much to make a good argument using both, and the New Testament is about Jesus, which is what your religion is SUPPOSED to be about.) makes it point very clearly that political change is to be made peacefully, through diplomacy or civil disobedience, thus proving the blasphemy of God's Army and other organizations that use terror as a weapon to further Christian ideas.
As for your final argument, on wasted potential, out of the 6 million lives taken every year by abortion, statistically there will be 600 serial killers, over 3 million pro-choice liberals, 600,000 illegal drug users, and half a despot/terrorist leader/general ne'er-do-well. Do you really want that to happen?
Finally, this is what I believe is the finest pro-choice argument. If "God" making a fetus die in the womb naturally, then a scared, hurt little girl, who might have been raped or subjected to incest, or who might die if she gave birth, choosing to end the pregnancy is an emotional miscarriage. Allow me to explain.
Let's say the girl wasnt raped or anything. She went out, got drunk, and slept with a guy she barely knew. She is a Christian. She is in college, and barely has enough money to buy food, never mind care for a child. She went through the system as a child and was sexually abused. Now she is faced with sending her child through a twisted and evil system, or terminating its life before it truly begins. Both options are incredibly, incredibly sad. But she should have the choice. It is not within the rights nor the authority of your religion or even the government to legislate what a person can or cannot do with their body as long as it is not hurting the general public.
It is also a fact that no one is truly alive unless they can survive on their own. People on life support are not truly alive, though if their lives continued they would not be raped and abused or try to kill themselves or submit the life support system to insane amounts of stress and sadness.
That's really the whole thing. I hope you'll think about this and really look at your opinion, because these are some very good points.
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