Abortion

[Reluctant Republican]

Interesting thoughts on the issue all around. I’ve written a bit on this in the past and think I’ll go head and copy a previous answer I gave to this issue.

I am pro letting females work this out for themselves. I'm a male so I really don't think I shoud have any say in what women want to do with their own bodies. Morally though, I'm torn. I think at least after a certain period of time a fetus can feel, so I do believe in some cases it is murder. However, I'm sort of an extreme libertarian and technically until it is out of the female, it might be her property more or less, and she is free to remove it from her if it troubles her. Also, population issues. We have enough people as it is, and look at where birth rates are falling [the industrial world] and watch where they are soaring [the third world] I frankly don’t want the third world’s population to get any bigger, compared to us, then it is now. Making abortion available in the third world helps at least slow this process down, which is good.

Still though, I find it morally disgusting, but when I look at the world without it, I think we’d be in a far worse off place with a lower standard of living, so it is the lesser of the evils in my view.

[Reluctant Republican]

Whether or not a fetus can "feel" is irrelevant because it's not sentient.  The hamburger I ate for lunch could feel when it's a cow, but who cares...it's not a conscious self-aware entity.

There are some legitimate arguments against abortion, and it really annoys me when some people feel like they have to use an illogical emotional appeal rather than a logical one.

Hey now, an argument’s an argument. I see nothing wrong with appealing to the ole ethos every once and awhile. And maybe it's not quite "aware" as we are, but I'm not really enthusiastic about anything being in crushing pain prior to its termination, wherever it knows what goes on or not. As I say however, I don't really care. When you think of the economic burden all those babies would have placed on society as a whole, abortion was the better option.