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Originally Posted by jamber97
Abortion?
If a baby can survive outside its mother it should have rights. Before that point it should be left up to the mother.
I feel that Biden articulated my stance on abortion well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc3_mATe3uY |
Jamber,
When I was close to your age, I held a similar position. One day, while doing maintenance in the Mortar Platoon Gun Room, one of my specialists (whose wife was pregnant) brought in a commercially-sold "coffee talble" book with pictures taken from within the womb as the fetus developed - at all stages. I was mystified, amazed, and mortified at the position I had previously held. Ashamed.
When my wife became pregnant on two occasions and I could see, hear, and feel life develop inside her, as well as witness the birth of my two daughters, I was forever changed. I know when they were conceived and saw them both born. At some point between those two events they became life. I am not about to "guess" when - or let someone else guess. It is life, plain and simple.
Also, by your argument, no babies should have "rights" because human infants cannot survive long "outside their mother" - whether "healthy and full-term" or not!