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If murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, then abortion is not murder because it is perfectly legal.
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True. Currently, I think of abortion as homicide. It SHOULD be illegal, though.
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And if life is the issue, the baby is not alive yet.
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Depends on your definition of life. I think a fertilized egg is alive.
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Should this be extended to when people decide not to have sex?
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Nope. No unique human life exists until fertilization.
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Is that stopping a baby from being born when it has all the right to be? That is the same because both are just the potential for life, not life itself.
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A fertilized egg consists of all of the DNA needed for life. Sperm and eggs alone do not.
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And 21% of abortions are because women can't afford a baby. And more minority women had abortions than white women (49 per 1,000). That would be a lot of babies born into poverty. What would their lives be like? At least this way, the baby feels no pain and the mother can have another baby when she's ready and the mother will have a better life and so will the baby that is born. Just because you don't like abortions, you shouldn't be able to take it away from the people that need it. Don't turn your opinion into the law.
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There is another alternative called adoption. There is a huge demand for infant adoptions that is not being met.
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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