HRS,

Do you eat lamb chops? Are you sorry a lamb has to die to provide a dozen families with a dinner? So am I -- but not sorry enough to stop eating lamb. Yet a lamb is far more developed than a human foetus. If there was a way to get lamb chops without killing lambs I would be all for it -- just as (unlike the Pope) I am all for humans using contraception. But aborting a blob of cells with the potential to be human is certainly no worse than putting a bolt through the brain of a young mammal, and the positive results in terms of relieving despair and misery are much, much greater than a lamb dinner. THAT is my emotional reaction, not the instinctive 'awww' provoked by emotive but misleading words like 'killing' and 'murder'.

JonJ
As a heterotrophic animal, I am compelled to eat other organisms to live.

However I do not eat fetuses, and I am not desensitized and brainwashed enough to regard a human fetus as being a “lobster” (as you now do).

While I can see the necessity for abortion in some circumstances, the abortion rate is too high, and abortion is now a political issue. Certain individuals may want to desensitize and brainwash other people so as to continue their politics and desire for abortion.

Jon J

No doubt with your godless philosophy you see nothing wrong with Cannibalism. Maybe when we have euthanasia in full swing we could solve the 'food crisis.'

Runner conjuring images of soylent green. Eerily predictive.

HRS - "Pro-abortion propaganda has been very effective in desensitizing and removal of human emotion."

Yes - I have noticed that too, which isn't too insightful really because we have plenty of historical examples where people who were to be subjected to genocide were also cast as something less than human - as lice; as vermin and so forth. The Nazis' actions of course spring to mind, but there are plenty of others.

When someone or some group is inconvenient; this seems to be the first basic rule - make sure that the feeling - the humanity - of their presence is nullified.

I am anti-abortion but pro-choice.

I would have abortion be legal, then do everything possible to educate people to make use of alternative methods of birth control and to consider the continued health risks of the abortion procedure.

I also think that the morning after pill should be readily available at every emergency department and perhaps from GPs.

Pynchme,
Propaganda is very effective isn’t it.

You want a post pregnancy pill that a woman takes in the full knowledge that she is pregnant.

And that pill will also stop them from grieving.

I wonder what that pill will contain. There wouldn’t be an illegal drug contained in that pill I suppose.

No, no. One needn't be or know they are pregnant to
take a morning after pill.

However, let's say a sexual assault victim turns up at
the ED, they could take the pill as a precaution.

It works for up to 3 days by making the womb
inhospitable to a fertilized egg or by preventing
ovulation for that short period.

Bear in mind that very often an egg is moving along
the fallopian tube and isn't actually fertilized at
the time that people have sex. It can happen quite a
while after the act.

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sex_relationships/facts/morningafterpill.htm

http://www.fpahealth.org.au/sex-matters/faq/index_7.html