I/we would be destroying what has the potential to have life, but doesnt yet possess it.
Like I said, all you lose is a ball of matter. A cynical way of looking at it, but it is realistic.
I'll comment on the rest later. Ta ta.
Potential to have life, but does not yet possess it. Then, what are we ending? If it’s the potential to have life, then, it’s life, isn’t it?
Realistic? And abortion, is it realistic? The heart of the “ball of matter” starts to beat as from the 21st day after contraception, while before two weeks, it’s near to impossible for a woman to find out she is pregnant. She will ultimately be killing a
child, not a “ball of matter”.
If aborting a child who is considered a ‘burden’, an ‘impediment’ to the victim’s life is a decision that should be accepted by the law, then selecting the gender of the unborn child should also be permitted, if having a child of particular sex (esp. a female) is considered to be a burden on the family. Is it right, moral, justifiable, to murder a child just because he is not of the sex one had desired? Because he’s a child one does not desire? If abortion is made legal, how can the law prevent people from using this right in conformity, to their own will?
Anyway, do you think it will be easy to legalize abortion when there are so many people who find it immoral, and sinful? Even the doctors are bound by the Hippocratic Oath (“I must not play at God”). How can they let a hypocrite government just impose a law in favour of a minority in a world where fundamental human rights of life (every human being has the
inherent right to life) , freedom, choice and opinion are ensured for one and all, and that is becoming more and more democratic? People will drop in the streets, and contest and rally and boycott a law that does NOT form part of their moral code.
Going for abortion is certainly the worst option one might choose. If women are raped, they can use contraceptive pills and prevent conception. Why should they wait for the fetus to be formed? Abortion will not encourage physicists to find better ways of dealing with the problems we have. There will be no pressure on heads of state, on human organizations, on helpers.
It will only make the world blind and crazy.