Should post-birth abortions be legal?

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"Most of my fellow countrymen are the unfortunate results of abortions that remained undone." Karl Kraus

Now he's a social darwinist.

No, obviously, and we shouldn't be performing late-term abortions either.

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And no, I haven't lost my mind, and I'm not just being an asshole, I am interested to see what someone who supports abortion, particularly late term, has as their reasoning to why this should not be.

A born infant could theoretically be raised by another parent, whereas a fetus is dependent on the mother's body.

Okay, just out of curiousity, would you think that if someone invites a handicapped person into their home, and then decides that the handicapped person is a nuisance, would the homeowner be justified in shooting the handicapped person?

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Okay, just out of curiousity, would you think that if someone invites a handicapped person into their home, and then decides that the handicapped person is a nuisance, would the homeowner be justified in shooting the handicapped person?

The handicapped person is not dependent on the homeowner to live; they can go somewhere else.

Regardless, the woman still knew that the fetus would be staying in here uterus for nine months when she "invited" the sperm to produce the fetus into her uterus. I'm on the fence on this issue.

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If the baby has serious problems and won’t be able to live for long anyway, then I don’t have a problem with a termination of the child’s life. This would of course be only done in extreme situations, but I believe that killing a newborn can occasionally be a more compassionate act then leaving a severally disabled child alive who will likely be dead within a few years anyway. I also support euthanasia, for what its worth. I remember watching my aunt die when I was like 9 and she just continued to cling to life even after weeks in the hospital. Eventually her lungs filled with blood and she drowned and died, but I’ve always thought it would be more humane to just give people a shot like we do for our pets and kill them when they become too ill.

But as for the main topic, in cases where the child won't live long anyway, yes.

Well, that is of course a different situation.