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Author Topic:   Legal Death, Legal Life, Personhood and Abortion
kongstad
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Message 205 of 316 (185752)
02-16-2005 4:53 AM
Reply to: Message 203 by daaaaaBEAR
02-16-2005 12:02 AM


Well if ray Charles had been aborted then he wouldn't have been. So the world would have lost nothing.
By your argument a woman should be pregnant all the time - because every possible pregnancy could possibly result in a Ray Charles.
The fetus could possibly be a person and possibly be a Ray Charles (or Charles Manson) - but if the fetus is aborted - then it is not a Ray Charles or Charles Manson that is aborted - only the fetus - because IT IS NOT YET ANYTHING ELSE BUT A FETUS!
/Soren

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kongstad
Member (Idle past 2870 days)
Posts: 175
From: Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined: 02-24-2004


Message 233 of 316 (186166)
02-17-2005 11:05 AM
Reply to: Message 223 by riVeRraT
02-17-2005 7:11 AM


Re: Missed Point
> If they do not want kids that bad they can
> get a vesectomy like me.
I do not now the numbers in the US, but in Denmark there is - on average - on pregnancy a week where the woman is sterilised.
It seems that some times the binding is not succesful - so a woman who has undergone a sterilisation procedure gets pregnant.
So by your standards they should just not have sex?
By the way - luckily - in Denmark there is no doubt about womens right to abortions. More than 90% of the population supports this right. About as many are concerned about abortion though - and think it should be used as little as possible - and indeed since it was legalized in 1973 the rate has been steadily decreasing - thanks to a big effort in sex education, and the easy availability of contraceptivess. For the last couple of years emergency contraceptives have been OTC - which also helps.
/Soren
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