Thread: ABORTION: Where do you stand?

It seems like the majority of people here are of the opinion that a fetus is not a "person", and therefore has no rights or value. However, it seems difficult to really pin-point what makes someone a "person", or to determine what really makes them valuable.

Spartiate, from what I can gather, believes that a fetus is not a "person" until it is born and can therefore have interactions and experiences. However, there are people born who will never have any conversation or any real interaction with anyone. Infact, the interaction I had with my daughter before she was born (talking to her, pressing on my stomach and she would press back, feeling her move around) is more than what some people will do in their whole lifetime.

Blueline seems to believe that abortion is okay as long as it is done before a certain gestational age, which is probably what most people feel. However, then we get into the problem of when does life actually begin, and when does it become wrong to destroy that life simply because we want to? We also get into the question of, do we have souls, and when do they begin to inhabit the physical vessel? Blueline doesn't believe we have souls, but if we are going with that theory, what's the difference if we kill a child while still in the womb or at 5? If we are nothing but a slightly more evolved animal, why does anyone's life have value at all, no matter what their age? We are all destined to be worm food anyway, there's no point to any of it and therefore actions are inconsequential.

I don't think any one person has the right to determine what you have to be to qualify as a "person". If any life is to be valued, then ALL life must be valued.

On another note, I think it's interesting that only 50 percent of people who have children are Pro-Choice. I think that having your own children effects your view on the subject greatly. It's too bad there's not more members with children here so that I could get a better idea of it that's true or not.