Originally posted by Eagler:
Sad how many of the same people screaming about putting an admitted mass murderer of women and children to death, will support the abortion of an unborn child who has done nothing to warrant such a sentence...
Eagler
You're right. People who support abortion view it as a "necessary" evil. People who support the death penalty view it as a "necessary" evil. Yet the two camps almost always take the opposite stance on the other issue. Liberals pro abortion, anti-death penalty. Conservatives pro-death penalty, anti-abortion (except in cases of rape, incest and significant danger to the mother.)
Personally, I hate abortion as a form of birth control. However, it needs to be legal. Why? Because if it wasn't, the stupid women (and little girls!!!) would still try to have them in some back alley doctors office. "Coat hangar" abortions WOULD happen, which is extremely dangerous to the women. Another point is if the mother doesn't want the child, she won't care for it or love it, and that's a worse fate than abortion, IMO. We all know that not every child put up for adoption will find a loving home. I know I'm not going to take the unwanted child. Are you going to take it? Those are the reasons why it's a necessary evil in my opinion.
As for the people who say "it's the woman's body, we can't tell her what to do with it." Excuse me? We can tell her she cannot use marijuana (and other illegal drugs), we tell her she cannot sell her body for sex (in most states anyways), and we even tell her that she can't legally attempt to take her own life in some states. We tell her she can't smoke til she's 18, she can't drink til she's 21 and can't vote til she's 18. So we can and we DO tell her what she can and can't with/do to her own body.
In my opinion, picking and choosing what an adult can and can't do to themselves (you can drink, but can't shoot up heroin. you can't prostitute yourself, but you can abort an unborn fetus) is every bit as bad as people who pick and choose which scriptures and teachings from the bible to follow and which to ignore. Just some extra things to think about...