I respect what you are saying, but the topic seems to have shifted to general 'Is Abortion acceptable?'. Oh well then, my views and response.

Quote Originally Posted by Divinus Arma View Post
Mistakes happen. A responsible adult should opt for reliable forms of birth control. If birth control is unacceptable, than abstinence or masectomy is preferable to murder of an innocent life.
The fact remains that even birth control is not 100% certain. As you say mistakes do happen. However, everyone deserves a second chance. If the woman in question, and lets face it, usually the bloke involved, if he's uncaring, will find a way to skip off, can't handle having a child, whether through, youth (teen pregnancies do happen), or social or mental circumstance, this is the only way of erasing a mistake of this magnitude.


So let's kill our children earler instead of later? There are alternatives to ending a relationship with a child. Murder is not the option of a caring and civilized society.
I'd argue with the use of the term murder, but nothing else here.


As I said, there are alternatives to abortion. The mother's life will not be impacted after delivery. Every Fire Station I know of is a "safe surrender" location where a mother can drop off her newborn with no questions asked.
In a perfect world adoption would be a better option, I agree, the fact remains that people are unwilling to go through nine months of inconveniance to get to that point.

The problem is that we have a modern culture of convience. If you find something to be a disturbance to your life, destroy it.

This is a major issue with modren society.

We can change the culture by recognizing that feticide is immoral and criminal, tantamount to murder, while also promoting and advocating tax payer and private non-profit alternatives. I would rather be raised in a foster home or in a government orphanage than have my life stolen just as it began. How many wonderful people have been killed before they even had a chance to begin?
While it is true that many wonderful people may have had their lives 'stolen', it is equally true that many bad people will have also. It's a question of when life truly begins, and for me, it is at birth.