Mjl wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 2:11 pm
Feral wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 1:44 pm
Mjl wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 12:53 pm
And because of that I am anti-abortion in every case except for to save the mother's life.
I would say that life starts when two people's DNA forms a single strand and starts replicating. But I'm so uncertain of that that I usually try to steer clear of the abortion debate (except for, like, right here).
So, you're in favor of the government forcing victim's of rape and incest to carry the perpetrator's "child" to term?
smfh
Yes, because it doesn't justify taking a life - that child wasn't a perpetrator. The only thing it could justify is taking the life of the rapist.
Would you be for being allowed to kill a six week old child because it was the product of rape or incest?
For someone who believes life starts in the womb, there is no difference between the two.
So you’re in favor of a system where a fetus’s, I mean baby’s, i.e., “person’s”,
wants and desires, (despite not having any), take precedence over those of the woman carrying it, unless it poses a clear danger to her life. Right?
Consider that approximately 15-20%, 750,000-1,000,000
known pregnancies each year in the United States, end in a miscarriage. It’s assumed that the real total is at least twice if not three or more times that high, (many believe ~ 50%),
since it’s very likely the majority of miscarriages occur before a woman ever knows she’s pregnant. So, by a conservative estimate, at least 1.5-2.5 million “people” die every year in the US due to being the victim of a miscarriage.
When a little over one million people in the US died due to Covid over ~ 3 years, many Americans got pretty worked up about it, and felt it was unnecessarily high. Yet, probably at least twice that many “people” are dying
every year due to miscarriages, and nothing? Where is the outrage? Nobody cares enough to do something? Two million of our fellow Americans are dying due to miscarriages
every year, and we don’t care?
What have we become as a nation?
Isn’t it negligent on our part, if we don’t at least try?
I have an idea…
Because of gravity, women in pre-term labor are routinely put on bedrest for weeks and months to try to buy time and preserve their pregnancies. When you think about it, gravity is no friend to the adherence of any “person’s” placenta to the womb under any circumstances, so in an effort to save the maximum number of “people” possible, why not put all women on bedrest as soon as their pregnancy diagnosis is made? It might save a significant number of those ~ 2,000,000 previously lost miscarried “people’s” lives yearly, but even if it only saves one “person”, isn’t it worth it?
Is it good for the “person”, and if so, why stop there?
Sometimes miscarriages are due to an incompetent cervix. The cervix is unable to withstand the pressure above it produced by the weight and volume of the developing “person”, and the cervix dilates open prematurely and the “person” comes out. After a woman is diagnosed with an “incompetent cervix”, which is usually after two or three failures, (i.e., dead "people"), of trying to carry a pregnancy long enough to reach viability, a cerclage is performed.
Cerclage: A procedure in which the cervical opening is closed with stitches to prevent or delay preterm birth.
But, why wait?
Mandating an intra-vaginal procedure as minor as a cerclage as early as possible on every pregnant woman in America isn’t too high a price to pay to ensure we save the most “people” who might have been miscarried, otherwise. And since women are going to be forced to carry their pregnancies to term anyway, why not sew all their cervixes shut early, in an effort to save the maximum number of “people” possible?
To do anything less, would be a sin…