ETA: Oh, and hm. Religion as a justification for a law that affects everyone? I'm not even going to bother with separation of church and state, because that's just a dream in America, but religion does NOT affect everyone. Many people do not believe in Christianity. Or Islam, Judaism, Hindu, etc. I consider myself a Christian, but I do not think that's a reason to remove an important service that I personally think has done a lot more good for humanity than not.
The abortion debate will
always sizzle down to a religious argument. That's why it can never be logically won.
But I'm for abortion. And thus, I'm also completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together would be certain death.
Abortion is not something that should be handed out like M&Ms. The scares that it leaves you with cannot heal. The emotional ones and the psychical ones. One of my girlfriends got an abortion and went into a deep depression because of it. And there are more women out there who have gone through the same thing has her. Abortion is a traumatic experience that no woman should go through with unless their life is on the line.
Plus, I count it has murder. If it has a heart beat, it is a alive. A fetus knows whats going in it's little bubble by the time it's four months old. It can feel the pain of abortion. It knows that it's life is being ended before it can breath.
And to be honest, I doubt you like it if your mother told you she considered aborting you.
I disagree with that on so many levels. We're not talking about forced shock treatment - we're talking about choice. That's what this debate should be about. Abortion isn't about whether or not a microscopic piece of goo inside of a woman is living or not (because I agree that partial birth abortion is taking things a bit far), abortion is rater about if the woman has the
right to
choose to abort a little parasite leeching away her own nutrients.
Have you ever heard of a Human Bot Fly? Long story short, the Bot Fly egg hatches on a human, buries itself into your skin, and continues to feed off of you until it comes out and turns into a pretty little fly. Should having that removed be considered murder? The problem with people that consider abortion murder is the inconsistency of what a "life" really is. Isn't it arrogant to think human life is the only important life? I love it when people talk about the morality of preserving life, and go home and squish a cockroach. If you're going to be "pro-life", you really have to go the full monty. You can't pick and choose what life you think it worth saving, because the truth is that there are too many life forms out there that are far better than us; the pitiful, pointless, destroying humans we are.
I've always wanted to start a campaign to "save the bacteria". I'd love a bumper sticker like that. Bacteria is technically a life... so if you're gonna be "pro-life", you might as well be "pro-bacteria" as well. In the case of logical morality, you have no choice.
As for the politics of the issue, being the right-wing Conservatives (AKA, wingnuts), there's also an inconsistency. These same people are often times pro-war/pro-government. The Government's opinion is that your life is important until you're born, then they don't give a crap about you. (Until you're of army recruiting age! Then they love you again).
Politically speaking, abortion can be summed up like this:
"If you're pre-born, you're fine; if you're pre-school, you're effed."
