I have 3 young kids. I would never choose to have an abortion in almost any circumstance. I'm against abortion. I'm against forcing a person to do something. I have a really hard time with this whole abortion thing. But I do think the US has about the right balance on this issue so far. It will keep shifting left and right as a whole and in each states. I just hope it doesn't go one extreme or the other. Hopefully one day technology and the field of medicine can solve this issue for most. There will always be a few on the extreme side (yes, some religion will not allow technology or medicine to solve this), but those aren't going to matter much when much progress has been made and society as whole is happier. So although I have a really hard time with this abortion or not, I don't believe it's going to change much in the short term and I wish that it is not part of our political arena (same with gay marriage and other divisive social issue). Government should focus more on improvement life and less on regulating it.
Does an aborted fetus not have the same chance, actually a significantly higher chance, of gaining consciousness if given the chance?
Perhaps not unwanted by many others including fathers, aunts, uncles, grandparents, potential adoptive parents, etc.
but let's not pretend that that world have infinite resources and that the world is not overpopulated. every day there are plenty of preventable death in the world (malnutrition, contaminated drinking water, easily curable diseases, many more orphans than adoptive parents etc) if we really want to save human lives, shouldn't we divert the resources (people's time and money) currently used to try to change the law and ban abortion to help those dying people instead?
Oh how I felt for Rorschach after that clip where his mother is like "I should have had an abortion!"
