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<blockquote data-quote="MmatsDude" data-source="post: 5530922" data-attributes="member: 586264">As I see it, it&#039;s either right or wrong (abortion that is), and people will develop their own reasons to be pro-life or pro-choice, as to with that said, I do agree with your last part, but the legality of the issue should not even be a primary consideration IMO. In addition, I think the whole &quot;pro-life&quot; &quot;pro-choice&quot; debate is something of an antiquated notion. The terms serve only to point negatively at the opposite opinion. For both sides to be metaphysically immodest is perhaps imperative; regardless, for there to be any resolution of this issue, it must be a universal consensus. Since that seems unlikely, I&#039;ll sometimes merely state what I&#039;ve come up with in my own reasoning about this issue.For that matter, I think that the idea that timing makes abortion acceptable has since become obsolete in my line of thinking. A human ***** will never develope into anything but a morally-capable, sentient being. If for some reason the timing genes were tampered with and the fetal brain ceased developing before gaining its extra convolutions and large frontal lobe, and somehow took a step backward in the parade of ontogeny, and was something less than human and not capable of reason, I would probably say that in that case abortion was at least somewhat justifiable. The fact that it is in the process of developing into an independently aware being deters me from drawing that conclusion. I also believe that If one justifies abortion by the statement that it is not morally-capable or self-aware, one could also use that same argument to justify infanticide, or even the murder of schizophrenics.Maybe it&#039;s just it&#039;s simply that because a ***** doesn&#039;t look fully human, we find it acceptable to terminate it.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MmatsDude, post: 5530922, member: 586264"] As I see it, it's either right or wrong (abortion that is), and people will develop their own reasons to be pro-life or pro-choice, as to with that said, I do agree with your last part, but the legality of the issue should not even be a primary consideration IMO. In addition, I think the whole "pro-life" "pro-choice" debate is something of an antiquated notion. The terms serve only to point negatively at the opposite opinion. For both sides to be metaphysically immodest is perhaps imperative; regardless, for there to be any resolution of this issue, it must be a universal consensus. Since that seems unlikely, I'll sometimes merely state what I've come up with in my own reasoning about this issue. For that matter, I think that the idea that timing makes abortion acceptable has since become obsolete in my line of thinking. A human ***** will never develope into anything but a morally-capable, sentient being. If for some reason the timing genes were tampered with and the fetal brain ceased developing before gaining its extra convolutions and large frontal lobe, and somehow took a step backward in the parade of ontogeny, and was something less than human and not capable of reason, I would probably say that in that case abortion was at least somewhat justifiable. The fact that it is in the process of developing into an independently aware being deters me from drawing that conclusion. I also believe that If one justifies abortion by the statement that it is not morally-capable or self-aware, one could also use that same argument to justify infanticide, or even the murder of schizophrenics. Maybe it's just it's simply that because a ***** doesn't look fully human, we find it acceptable to terminate it.[IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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