Health Care and Abortion (Open)

[Britanania]

Now, I am against abortion in every way, unless both the mother and child are in danger. Let me relate a scenario for all of you.

Pretend you are an abortion doctor, and you have two patients today who want your advice.

The first women cant be more than 15. She was date raped, so to speak. She comes from a very poor family, but is also very catholic. She is afraid because the father is a very important person and she has not told him yet. What is your advice?

Now the second women is married, but has a family history of illness; her first two children were miscarried and the next two died within a month. Her cousin's children are all deformed, and she is afraid this will happen to her child. What is your advice?

If you choose to give these women abortions, you would have denied the world the art of da Vinci, and spared the world of the evil of Hitler.

[Hresejnen]

My issue is that if a child is born to a parent who doesn't want it, chances are it's not going to grow up to be a particularly physically and mentally healthy human being. You can go on and on about whether or not a fetus has sentience, or whether abortion is an eraser that will be overused, or whatever, but the simple fact is that we don't want individuals who have grown up in abusive homes that could care less for their moral, intellectual, and emotional integrity. So I'm frankly of the opinion that if a would-be mother wishes to have an abortion, that's a sign that she should have an abortion. And if said parent can be proven to be incapable of properly raising a child, whether or not she wants the abortion, she should be required to have it anyway for the sake of my freedom, and all of yours, from those individuals who make our lives more difficult on account of being inept human beings in the aforementioned ways.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

I see no reason to extend this conversation into a new thread other than to include an unnecessarily spammish poll.