Abortion

[Travis]

why would somebody wait until they're 8.5 months pregnant to even get an abortion

[:atomsk:]

why would somebody wait until they're 8.5 months pregnant to even get an abortion

With abortion available, women have 9 months to decide if they actually want the baby. Plus circumstances can change a lot over that amount of time. Maybe her baby's daddy left her... She should have decided whether or not she wanted a child before she screwed around without protection and got pregnant.
People do get abortions that far into pregnancy, though. I don't understand why they came that far and they can't just give the baby up for adoption afer it's born.

[:atomsk:]

uhm. so would support an abortion if the fetus had a serious disease and wouldn't be able to live past a few years

Well, I'd have to stick by my stance that you should give every unborn child a chance at life so I'd want it to be born. But it's difficult to watch a child die slowly like that. Makes me think of patient requested euthanasia, but if the child is only a few years old it'd be difficult having him/her make a decision like that with complete reasonable thought. I couldn't give you an answer... i don't know what i'd do in that situation. I'd want the child... but i don't know.

[guff]

With abortion available, women have 9 months to decide if they actually want the baby.

uh not necessarily

As of April 2007, 36 states had bans on late-term abortions that were not facially unconstitutional (i.e. banning all abortions) or enjoined by court order. In addition, the Supreme Court in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart ruled that Congress may ban certain late-term abortion techniques, "both previability and postviability".

also uh it would appear that very very few abortions are performed that late in a pregnancy as only 0.08% are even performed after 24 weeks let alone the numbers you've pulled out of your ass

[Alan]

but it can grow.

are you against ejaculating outside of a vagina and menstruating too?

A sperm cell is one cell, not unlike your neurons, your muscle cells, your skin cells, or whatever. Until you eject it at rapid velocity, it's just another part of you; the major differences being that as a fully differentiated adult cell, a sperm cell only contains half the normal amount of DNA (which is how the whole sexual reproduction thing, you know, works).

A human child in utero is a distinct, living human organism, no matter what stage of biological development it is in. Your sperm is just one cell.

[Daddy]

A sperm cell is one cell, not unlike your neurons, your muscle cells, your skin cells, or whatever. Until you eject it at rapid velocity, it's just another part of you; the major differences being that as a fully differentiated adult cell, a sperm cell only contains half the normal amount of DNA (which is how the whole sexual reproduction thing, you know, works).

A human child in utero is a distinct, living human organism, no matter what stage of biological development it is in. Your sperm is just one cell.

I don't really think either is a sentient being but sure.

[FAMY2]

Some women don't even know they are pregnant. 

[Bolivian Army]

Some women don't even know they are pregnant. 

well then abortion isn't really an option for them 

[guff]

well then abortion isn't really an option for them 

abortion is not a laughing matter ba 

[Bolivian Army]

abortion is not a laughing matter ba 

i think you're just closed minded

[Zach]

Don't ejaculate unless it's into a vagina with no form of birth control.  Otherwise you'll be wasting sperm which could develop into life.

That's a tired argument, as well. A sperm does not have the ability to independently create life - it has to merge with the egg to form a life. Masturbation, oral sex, or anything else that leads to ejaculation outside of a vagina is not killing life.

[Daddy]

That's a tired argument, as well. A sperm does not have the ability to independently create life - it has to merge with the egg to form a life. Masturbation, oral sex, or anything else that leads to ejaculation outside of a vagina is not killing life.

Then why is the Catholic Church against contraception?

[YPrrrr]

Then why is the Catholic Church against contraception?

Sex is supposed to be about procreation rather than pleasure. Something like that

[Zach]

Then why is the Catholic Church against contraception?

Because they're against the waste of seed. They are opposed to all ejaculation outside of a vagina because they think that sperm is only supposed to go inside of your wife.

[Daddy]

what about when the priests do it in children

oooooooh burn

But they are against birth control too.