First off, I'm very much pro-choice and have to say that MHP is basically correct that a collection of cells that cannot think or breathe certainly can
not claim to be called a human life. That said, it is
certainly not a question of 'how the parents feel' that determines when such life can reasonably be said to begin; it is a question of both biology, which determines when certain crucial functions begin, and of morality, which defines what 'human life' is.
Another thing:
We know conservatives think women should go back to being treated as the baby-making property of their husbands. We know they're hiding this in arguments about the well-being of babies or whatever, even though conservatives repeatedly vote to cut funding to actually give these babies food and healthcare once they're born.
This post demonstrates a lot of what is wrong with political discourse in the US, both on the left and the right. Lief
knows that people who disagree with him are sexist! How? Clearly because he is telepathic. Or maybe he says so because he knows it's easier to build up strawmen rather than to debate an issue on its own terms.
If a pregnant women thinks that giving birth to the child will be an incovience to her, that is just as a valid excuse to have an abortion as rape, incense and her health. I applaud the great Melissa Harris-Perry on this segment , she is always brilliant and thought provoking.
That's ridiculous and selfish.
It is not. It's ridiculous to think that public policy once forced women who did not have the experience, resources, or desire to have children give birth to a child. That such women should not have children, and if they do certainly shouldn't be tasked with raising them, seems to me pretty common-sense.
