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For those of you who don't know, Dr. Morgentaler was a pioneering doctor for the pro-choice movement in Canada.
What impressed me about this story was the levelheadedness shown both by the protestors at the ceremony, and by Morgentaler's supporters. No violence, no nastyness, just a clean bit of civil disobedience, which is everybody's right.
Well done.
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Is that how you treat murderers up there? ~:eek:
A horrible person indeed, who deserves a jail term, not an award. But hey, its bizzaro-America up there!
If I am not mistaken we have abortion here in the states as well. So panzer, we are indeed muders aswell here in the states are we not? (if you believe such a thing) Bit harsh to call him a murder while we allow it to happen here.
Why must things like this be done? This is already a sensitive issue, why inflame it with awards? Just can't people leave things alone.
Well, Panzer, let's take it to the opposite extreme, shall we?
Your wife is forced to get an abortion by the local authorities, who bear a personal grudge against you, possibly because you were caught speeding one too many times or something.
(Guess what nation I'm talking about)
Now the way I see it. You can keep voluntary abortions in America, or you can have state mandated, compulsory abortion.
Yes, those who do not act against abortion in this country are guilty to some degree of murder just as the German people who stood idly by while the jews were murdered.Quote:
If I am not mistaken we have abortion here in the states as well. So panzer, we are indeed muders aswell here in the states are we not? (if you believe such a thing) Bit harsh to call him a murder while we allow it to happen here.
At least we dont give awards for it though..
Im trying to understand what that first part meant, but my answer to the second bit would be a third option: no needless abortion at all. :bow:Quote:
Well, Panzer, let's take it to the opposite extreme, shall we?
Your wife is forced to get an abortion by the local authorities, who bear a personal grudge against you, possibly because you were caught speeding one too many times or something.
(Guess what nation I'm talking about)
Now the way I see it. You can keep voluntary abortions in America, or you can have state mandated, compulsory abortion.
What's your obsession with the sanctity of life? Life is just life, there's nothing sacred or holy about a biological process.
If we dont protect the most innocent among us, what does that say about society?
I can see you dont understand where pro-life people come from, and thats ok, its like spirituality or religion - you either have it or you dont.
But to put it in a different frame, do we really want to go down in the history books as a group of people who allowed the killing of millions of innocent children each year, but spent millions of dollars trying to rehabilitate criminals? Something is backwards there.
So you admit that abortion is the termination of life?Quote:
What's your obsession with the sanctity of life? Life is just life, there's nothing sacred or holy about a biological process.
I suppose I am pro-life to a certain extent. The first trimester is in my eye's alright for an abortion. 2nd is iffy because i'm not sure of the medical development. 3rd is off limits in my opinion, by then the baby is formed and has assumed life funtions to some extent.
^ Just a little summery of my beliefs there.
Overall as I said earlier why must people just keep rubbing salt in these wounds. Clearly this issue is sensitive, almost taboo, so why give this guy an award. They knew it would just inflame the issue again.
Hell yea son!
Then again, my cultural background is entirely different from either yours or Panzer's.
glorifying a mass murderer, a modern-day Hitler with an "Honorary Degree". just goes to show how utterly evil society is nowadays
could anything possibly be any more sick?
probably not
wonder if they also gave the original Hitler his post-humous "Honorary Degree" yet.
They're giving him an honourary degree because he's contributed greatly to chyrourgical science that some people find is a great achievement. I don't agree that what he did was good, but it definetly takes some skill so good for him. He deserves a degree for what he did. Doesn't have anything to do with right and wrong.
Remember it's good to learn, even from your enemy. :book:
He was a pioneer for women's rights. He was not being honoured for aborting fetuses, a truly horrible thing to do (yet that must be allowed), but for giving women a choice regarding their own bodies.
Abortion is horrible and sad and terrible. Having a man being able to dictate terms to a woman regarding what she does inside her own body is worse.
Nobody is pro-abortion - they are pro-choice. They insist a woman has utter and complete control over her entire body. That is the point. To be pro-abortion you would be telling women who want to have babies to abort them. I don't think anyone anywhere is doing that. Except amongst the commies and facists perhaps.
And while we're at it, why not roll out the red carpet for people who put severly disabled people to death? They're such an inconvenience on society don't you pro-choice people think?
A featus is a life. Therefore by basic human rights it has the right to live. It hardly seems like pro-choice at all, because the life in question didn't decide whether it would live or die.
My thoughts exactly. Wanting to remove the womens their rights to abort is closing on facism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beirut
You know Beirut, when we dont talk politics, we kinda think alike... ~:cheers: Must be the woodmans heritage...
I don't think anyone here ever said anything like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Khalifah
The entire point is whether a woman has the right to control her own body. The answer has to be yes. Is the woman's right to control her own body more important that that of the fetus inside her? Yes. It has to be. A woman cannot lose her right to self-determination the moment she is pregnant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Khalifah
Granted a woman has the right to control her own body, however, an unborn child is a body in its own right too. Does that child not have the right to control its own body?
^Exactly.
If pro-abortion people are so worried about people's rights over their own bodies, why dont they care about the child's body?
Sigh.. how... many... times....Quote:
Originally Posted by PanzerJager
*faints*
People do care, as do I, about the unborn. A pregnant woman is the, should be, most protected living being on the planet. Who would not sacrifice themsleves to save a pregnant woman?
But a woman's body is her own. And as sad and terrible as abortion is, there is no choice but to have woman retain and maintain complete controol over their bodies, regardless of the condition it is in.
As I said, I don't think anyone is pro-abortion, they are pro-choice. In the same way that I do not want any child to be hit but I still condone a parent's right to spank their kid.
OK then. Take this hypothetical scenario. A mother has given birth to a child, but the child has such serious mental/physical disabilities that the mother is unable to look after the child and maintain any semblance of normal life. Does the mother have the right to have the child killed?
No.
That's where you are very wrong Beirut, my woodland friend. At least according to the pro-life crowd you are. According to them, us pro-choice, oops, sorry, pro-abortion folks fight for abortion rights not because we care about women, but because there is nothing that satisfies us more than the thought of a fetus being torn from its mother's womb. According to the pro-life folks, we think abortions are more satisfying than the smell of bacon frying over a campfire early in the morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beirut
Anyway, don't shatter their illusion. They feel happiest when perched upon a mountain of self-righteousness, and when they're happy they are at least less likely to notice my wanton fornication and smite me with more preaching from on high...
~;)
Good Lord. As deranged as the thought that they view us as so might be, it's possibly true. But I do hope not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goofball
I can certainly understand where the pro-life people are coming from and I respect their stance on the sanctity of life. But if, in the end, it's comes down to another person having authority over's a woman body (now there's a thought... :wiseguy:), then the answer must be that a woman has authority over her own body.
This might be stretching it a bit (a lot), but if a woman does not have the right to end a pregnancy, could that extend to her not having the right to refuse being impregnated in the first place? And if she must carry the baby to full term, against her wishes, by order of the state, what responsibilities does the state have towards her raising that child?
If the mother and father are responsible, by law, for any child they create, and if both agree with the idea of an abortion and are overruled by the state and the child is born, does not the state now carry a burden of responsibility to the child exceeding that of what is owes to a child born "voluntarily" since the the child is alive only because of the state's wishes?
So, in your opinion, an unborn child is nothing more than a part of the mothers body - like an apendage? ~:confused:Quote:
People do care, as do I, about the unborn. A pregnant woman is the, should be, most protected living being on the planet. Who would not sacrifice themsleves to save a pregnant woman?
But a woman's body is her own. And as sad and terrible as abortion is, there is no choice but to have woman retain and maintain complete controol over their bodies, regardless of the condition it is in.
What about children who have been cut out of their dead or dying mothers due to an injury? Would you allow such a child to be killed if the mother wasnt hurt and decided she didnt want it?
The further science progresses, the more premature babies are surviving. Hell, we can even grow them in tubes! I dont know how anyone can claim that a being that can exist completely separated from a woman is somehow part of that womans body? HAve you seen a fetus - is that not a body also? Where are its rights?
No scientist can accurately say when a fetus changes from "a clump of cells" into a being so the only logical solution, if you believe in erring on the side of life, is to protect that clump of cells that will be a human in a matter of weeks anyway.
A mother has no right to kill her child after its born, why should they have the right to kill their child before its born - especially since we now know so many children can live long before natural birth. ~:confused:
This issue is the ultimate liberal hypocrasy. How can such "humanists" be so callace toward obvious humanity... Is it because a fetus has no personality? Is it because a fetus wont be grateful? I fear that for many liberal politicians, a fetus simply cannot vote.. :no:
Of course not. I'm not sure anyone, certainly not myself, views the matter as lightly as you suggest we do. I admit to all of this being terribly sad and unfortunate, I'm just not sure I see any way around it for now.Quote:
Originally Posted by PanzerJager
No. Once that kid hits the air, it is life unto itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by PanzerJager
The rights of the fetus are inherently the rights of its mother. Indistinguishable. While a fetus is inside a woman that fetus is part of the woman and subject to the woman's self determination.Quote:
Originally Posted by PanzerJager
Seen one? I was one. ~:cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by PanzerJager
All of this is very heavy stuff and I don't pretend to have all the answers, but having the state take control over a woman's body and her reproductive system is absolutely not the answer. it sets a precedent that can have outlandish consequences.Quote:
Originally Posted by PanzerJager
And, if you can or would, would you be so kind as to answer, for my benefit, the questions I posed about the state's responsibilties towards a child it insists be born. I am curious as to your views.
Well, in all countries that aren't trapped in a fanatical battle between two extremes :dizzy2: , the abortion period is limited to the period before a festus can survive in any way outside the mothers womb.Quote:
A mother has no right to kill her child after its born, why should they have the right to kill their child before its born - especially since we now know so many children can live long before natural birth.
Considering the development of genetical and mental research, I'm going to guess that in the first case they won't care much and in the second case they are probably going to think that it was on the right track, but much less effective than with thier own methods. A bright future? Perhaps..., but certainly different.Quote:
But to put it in a different frame, do we really want to go down in the history books as a group of people who allowed the killing of millions of innocent children each year, but spent millions of dollars trying to rehabilitate criminals? Something is backwards there.
Most Pro-lifers are also conservatives; correct me if I'm wrong. So if they got their way what would happen?
Well first of all the number of adoptions and deaths through childbirth will skyrocket. Now we have the conundrum, social services and their orphanages are already under funded, and with thousands more babies each of which will require 16 years of care. The results of which are not pretty, the figures of children coming out of care going into crime are alarmingly high.
What this translates into is an even greater burden on the Government's already stretched budget...and here we get to the crux of the issue, conservative politicians have always had the agenda of spending less, unless it involves the military. So if abortions are banned it will mean a bigger hit on your wallets, and considering most of you would rather be taxed less and see a homeless guy die in the street or young children become mal-nourished because their families aren't getting enough in benefits...
Then we have the other thing, instead of foetus's ding you'll be condemning the mother. Even if you ban it there will be failed doctors and fakes who will cash in by offering illegal abortions. Most of these will be ill-performed and extremely dangerous to the patient. End result instead of a foetus that may or may not be even self aware you will be condemning people, whose life cannot be argued with, to disease, infection and even death.
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Originally Posted by Beirut
this argument makes no sense at all. it's irrational, illogical, and outright insane
there is never any justification for murdering any baby. if humans as a species were not evil and insane, there is no possible way it would be allowed
"giving a choice" is just a ludicrous euphemism meant to "gloss over" acts of murder and genocide.
if i "choose" to use my body to murder someone, that is really not a 'choice' that lets me off the hook for murder. i can't say "i was choosing to use my own body in a way which murdered someone else, but since it was my choice that is therefore A-ok!"
nor is it for anyone who commits murder via "abortion"
Navaros, it's ok to kill.
"Thou Shalt Not Kill" is so 10th century B.C