Thread: What do you think about abortion?

Originally Posted by Mzrokks

The thing you said on thinking - would a mentally impaired person constitute a human being?

I believe a mentally impaired person is capable of thinking. Probably not as much as we do but that doesn't deny s/he is incapable of knowing what s/he likes.

Originally Posted by Mzrokks

So how is a baby (fetus, whatever word you prefer) not a human being, and how can killing it be justified?

I never said a fetus isn't a human being. I was talking about a life. A life that if killed people will cry over it. From how I described I would say a plant isn't so much of a life since it is incapable of its own thoughts and no one will moan over the death of a plant. Whereas for an animal it is capable of thoughts and there are people feeling sad for them if they are brutally killed. If we were to put fetus and a plant on par (sorry if that sounds harsh), a fetus being unable to form thoughts doesn't constitute to the idea of "life" I was talking about.

And the last thing any parents would want to hear is their child blaming them for giving birth to them because of the parent's inability to bring up the child properly.

The point I was trying to make is I think abortion is a better option if the parents do not have the ability to look after the baby, both financially and the knowledge to guide them.

Originally Posted by Carrot

I never said a fetus isn't a human being. I was talking about a life. A life that if killed people will cry over it. From how I described I would say a plant isn't so much of a life since it is incapable of its own thoughts and no one will moan over the death of a plant. Whereas for an animal it is capable of thoughts and there are people feeling sad for them if they are brutally killed. If we were to put fetus and a plant on par (sorry if that sounds harsh), a fetus being unable to form thoughts doesn't constitute to the idea of "life" I was talking about.

You're right on the thing about mentally-impaired people, though I was talking about worst case scenarios.

I still put a fetus on a different shelf as, say, a plant or an animal, because it is basically going to grow into a human, so I don't really dig comparing these kinds of situations. To me, at least, saying a fetus is in the same category as an egg or an acorn etc. doesn't make that much sense.

I'm speaking mostly emotionally here, I apologize if I ramble on a bit

Originally Posted by Carrot

And the last thing any parents would want to hear is their child blaming them for giving birth to them because of the parent's inability to bring up the child properly.

The point I was trying to make is I think abortion is a better option if the parents does not have the ability to look after the baby, both financially and the knowledge to guide them.

Obviously a situation where an abortion is wanted is going to be bad, but I don't think every child from a single parent family/similar situation is automatically etc etc. There's always going to be a margin of error(?)

What I'm trying to say is, it is my opinion that we have no right to decide that death is a better alternative to being born into a difficult situation. Maybe the person would have thought one way or the other, but we're deciding for them here. Of course if we say no abortion, we are also deciding for them but we're also letting them live as opposed to terminating their life.