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Originally Posted by antikristuseke
I agree with you up to the pint where you say however, because what comes after that amounts to BS in my opinion, and here is why. There are already thousands of children up for adoption, there is no shortage of kids to adopt. Also contraceptives are not failure proof, when contraceptives were used in order to avoid pregnancy and they failed, then what? Have the mother bring a child in to this world that is clearly unwanted just because you find abortion distasteful? Hell, I find it distasteful, that does not mean I have any right to forbid people from having one. Sure, you could just say that the woman should surely have abstained from sex, but be reasonable here, those who abstain until marriage are a very, very small minority, the rest of us enjoy sex. It is quite good. And to say abortion is nothing more than spite, now that really is some grade A bs right there.
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See, I personally harbor no deep revulsion to abortion, as I just can't quite cross the threshold of a 12 week old fetus being a "baby".
However, that being said, I *DO* find the "inconvienience" argument repulsive. If you have sex, even with contraception, are you not accepting the risk that you might get pregnant?
The idea that any baby would be a burden and therefore must not be brought into existance echoes the arguments in the late 1930s regarding the handicapped. That I find downright frightening.