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Originally posted by Munchkin03
I think what the anti-choice people have to understand is that it's not a perfect world. Boyfriends and husbands beat, cheat, and leave. Condoms break. Personal biochemistries don't work well with the Pill. Girls trust their boyfriends when they tell them that they don't need condoms. Women get pregnant and are either so scared or so uneducated about the way that their bodies work that they literally go into denial about their pregnancies.
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I am not denying the realities of the world. I have seen first hand the horrible consequences of woman having too many babies too soon when they are not able to care for them. I know a couple of "miracle" babies that were conceived while their mother was on BC. Even with that, we as a so-called civilized society try to provide protection for those who cannot help themselves. We do not let landlords just throw people out of their apartments because someone came along with a better deal. We do not let people just kill their pets because they are a burden on them. I think when we say the life of an unborn child is not valuable, then we can go on to say that other lives are not valuable as well, and that thought scares me.
To me I guess it boils down to when is the fetus a "child". Because of my belief system, I think it is a child the moment it is conceived. All of the properties are there to make a baby capable of living on his/her own, it just needs to develop to that point. If you don't consider the "thing" inside the mother a child, then I can understand how someone would be pro choice. What's interesting to me though, is that some people who call themselves pro choice were also for having Scott what's his face tried for the murder of his wife and unborn child, or agree with having a drunk driver charged with "fetus-side" when they kill a pregnant woman and her child. Again, either it is a child or it is not, it shouldn't matter if it was wanted
I also find it VERY hypocritical of woman who say that a man should have no say so in a woman's decision to terminate or continue a pregnancy, but would FORCE the same man to pay child support if the woman decided on her own to have the baby. We can't have it both ways.