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RE: Life is a Natural Right - In response to "Abortion Is a Natural Right"
Human reproduction occurs in wombs. Nothing you or anyone can do about it. Developing humans were put there by choice, even if involuntarily (rape). Neither of those facts justifies one person (mother, doctor) taking the innocent life of another. At 5 1/2 months (preferrably laer), the woman can opt for a C-section and give the baby up for adoption. Until then, the fact that she made a "mistake" (or a crime was committed, in which case punish the criminal not the innocent baby) , does not give her the right to kill someone else for her convenience. As a consequece of her choice, she has to "suffer" and carry the child until he can be taken out of her.
That doesn't make any sense. an unwanted pregancy is not chosen
I realize that theres an expectation that women should suffer and be self-sacrificing for the sake of abstract concepts and babies. Some people really like the idea. Perhaps its even the primary factor in adopting anti-choice beliefs for some people. In the case you mention, the suffering doesn't end after the baby is gone; both physical and psychological. Who knows how long the suffering continues. Maybe the rest of her life. Even women who opt to give birth develop a type of love-hate for their infants and children born with it from the sacrifical nature of the whole ordeal. It's a big deal (pregancy) --not something that can be suggested 'just get used to it' in that cavalier way. A woman is just as innocent, anti-choice religious-derivative ideations that having a cock inside her make her less 'innocent' are life-negating.
The fact that you think you can dictate a course of events of someone's life like that shows you think of women generally as abstractions rather than human. The way anti-choice people speak of women and pregnancy is cold and detached. It's like a person going to court for a crime, standing there while two other people debate the conditions of their sentence.
Why do anti-choice people care? Why is a fetus their pet issue regarding 'saving lives'?