Anyone else on here both solidly on the left and anti-abortion?

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And no, I don't really care about a fetus' life, honestly. Yes, I think a fetus is a living being, but not a self-aware human being. As long as it doesn't even feel pain, I don't really mind killing it. Of course killing a living being is always a bad thing, but don't we kill animals to eat them, or to make scientific experiences ? Yes, a fetus is a life, but not yet a human being. It deserves some dignity, but not the same we give to full human beings.

And what of the severely mentally handicapped? Are they full human beings? And if they aren't, then should they have less rights than the rest of us? And to what place does that lead us?

I think in general that it's better not to philosophise too much over issues like this. Better to accept the necessity of imperfect and necessarily contradictory compromise.

Depending on how you define "full human being" I would say no.  Frankly we shouldn't pour valuable resources into keeping the severely mentally handicapped alive while entire families are having their homes foreclosed on and being tossed out into the street.  Our priorities in America are completely nonsensical.  I've seen severely mentally handicapped people that don't move, don't speak, who can't even feed themselves be admitted to the hospital time after time and have all kinds of interventions done to prolong their lives.  All at the tax payers expense.  If I were to have severe dementia and a stroke I wouldn't want people to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to prolong my "life."

The hundreds of thousands of dollar that were used to prolong the "life" of Terri Schiavo were a complete waste.

Frankly I think all Down syndrome babies should be aborted.

Now, this definitely creeps me out. Please take note that what I'm saying has nothing in common with Link's post.

Definitely not.

His post is one of the most disgustingly vile things I've ever read on here.
And I'm saying that with as much respect as I possibly could considering what was posted.

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Eugenics.  On Atlas.  I never thought I'd see the day (at least when Stark isn't making his periodic visits).

I'm not really all that surprised really.

You have to remember this is also the same forum where more than a few people have spoken, probably with grins on their faces and with hands moving furiously in their pants, about how a Bolshevik like purge of former Confederate leaders and the Southern planter class would've been ideal.  Then again feelings of retribution are at least more rational than natural bigotry from the likes of people like Link who believes we should destroy people who haven't had the opportunity to wrong anybody just because of their disabilities.

Just saying.