Jeff; The fetus is not human enough right from the start. While I wish to avoid someone having an abortion, it's still a woman's right to chose. I believe that if I woman is raped, she has the right to an abortion. Having the child could really effect her mentally. Have you considered that?
The fetus is not human enough...the woman has more things to worry about?
What is more important than the life of her child? Her convience? (because in 95+% of the cases that is exactly what is at stake for the woman). This idea that is is not "human enough" sounds like something for all the world right out of Nazi Germany. When is a human, human enough?
I am not trying to be rude or trying to accuse you of anything, so forgive the emotional reference to Nazi Germnany...but THINK! You talk about Gilchrist flip-flopping (which I do not believe he has actually done...he opposed and then got on board with the mission and its completion after the commitment was made...to me that is different than "flip-flopping" around for political purposes. Did you agree with EVERY order you were given in the military? Did you follow those you did not agree with and "get on board" anyway? That's more like what Gilchrist has done here).
Anyhow, this idea that a human fetus is "not human enough", is a talking point right out of the liberal and planned parenthood playbook itself. This is the liberal mantra itself. Not human enough indeed!
In addition, regarding rape...my own feeling is this. Why sentence the child to a death sentence for the crime of the rapist? I can understrand entirely a womam not wanting to raise a child from such an incident, but there are millions of families who would adopt a child and raise it to be a good citizen, never knowing of that trauma.
America was founded on the ideal of life...and that we can sacrifice and aspire to achieve something more and better for our children and children's children through our God given and morally constrained liberty. When we remove the most fundamental moral constraint, the right to life of the wellspring of our humanity...the foundation of the whole is uncercut and eventually the building will fall.
I would think the murder of her own child would really effect her.
I think I know everything I need to know about you now.
JeffHead sent me a message pointing me at this thread...
Jeff; The fetus is not human enough right from the start. While I wish to avoid someone having an abortion, it's still a woman's right to chose. I believe that if I woman is raped, she has the right to an abortion. Having the child could really effect her mentally. Have you considered that?
Don't use rape as a political football. You know, hard cases make bad law and all that...
In the meantime, I pose these three questions to you on the subject of rape and abortion:
1. What percentage of "unwanted" pregancies are actually due to rape? (Recall that Roe. v Wade was claimed to be about a pregancy resulting from rape; the plaintiff has since admitted she was lying.)
2. If you wish to stick to the rape idea, do you then support the force of the state to investigate the records of abortion clinics as a tool for investigating possible rape? This would include forcible rape as well as statutory rape--the 22-year-old boyfriend and 16-year-old girlfriend. 3. How much effort have you expended in talking with women going through post-abortion syndrome? It is facile to say "abortion is an easy out"; and it reminds me of the old joke about Ted Kennedy:
Q. Senator Kennedy, how do you feel about the abortion bill?
A. Well, I guess I'll just have to pay it.
Cheers!