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Originally Posted by libby  One poster (I think Wenchy) has stated that abortion is a no-brainer in the first trimester, worthy of more consideration in the 2nd, and abhorrent in the 3rd. Well what if we break that down into weeks, or even days of gestation instead of trimesters?
If pregnancy generally lasts 270 days +/-, is it okay to abort until day 200, but on 201 it becomes a crime?
If memory serves, the dissenting opinions in Roe v. Wade recognized that viability would be earlier and earlier as technology advanced, and indeed, that is the case. There are images of heart surgeries being done on babies +/- 22 weeks along. There is one picture in which the baby grabs the surgeons finger. So again, we have a baby in one hospital room being saved through medical advancements, and down the hall another baby of the same gestational age is having it's brain punctured and sucked out.
Either all life is valuable, or some lives can be discarded for whatever reason is perceived as legitimate by the more powerful, or the majority. Hitler and Hussein did nothing different than that which you advocate. |
For the most extreme believers in abortion it's not a matter of value, it's a matter of viability. Value has no meaning in the termination of life if it's not viable. But ask any of them when a fetus becomes viable and I bet they can't come up with a timeframe.
If you want to make a comparison of Hitler and S. Hussein to abortion you have to be willing to admit that abortion is not central to one person. This makes it even more scary in a couple of different ways:
1) It destroys life at its most innocent level.
2) You can easily remove the Hitlers and Husseins of the world; how do you remove an entire movement of people that support such killing as late-term and partial-birth abortions, especially when it is virtually condoned in our legal system?