Topic: Abortion
Quote: So how can I say all this and still support abortion? I guess I simply believe that having an abortion is sometimes the humane thing to do. I believe that preventing abortions would lead to more children growing up in poverty, with parents who hate them, and becoming criminals themselves. Not all abortions can be justified but I believe there are those that can be justified. Even if only a handful can be justified, then I will disagree with a law that would completely do away with all abortions. However, if you were to debate that abortions should be more tightly monitored and laws put in place to prevent unnecessary abortions, then I would tend to agree with you.
Response: If you still believe this way, then you must believe then it is OK to kill a child that has been born if it might not be loved, or might suffer, etc. That is the logical conclusion to your argument. If an unborn child and a born child are the same to you, then you cannot make a distinction as to which one should be killed and which one shouldn't. That is the spiralling hole into which abortion leads. There is a basic loss of respect for human life. Your defense actually scares me more than someone who deceives themself into believing the unborn child is not alive.\n
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