Are you a male Ferdi?Ferdi wrote:This emotional and religious issue, driven by popular beliefs, is of such importance that politicians use it to swing votes.
Google defines “murder” as “the crime of killing another person deliberately . . . . “ .
A foetus is not a “person” or an independent individual, it is an individual-under-construction. A healthy foetus is indeed “alive” evident from its movements and its heart-beat. It is a popular but mistaken belief that a foetus is a new human being. Beliefs serve some purpose, but now we can place a man on the moon and ingrained beliefs need to be questioned. Something can be “alive” but may not have “life”. This is the crucial point in the abortion issue.
A couple of observations may demonstrate the difference between “being alive” and “having life”, viz. at Funerals and in Organ transplanting.
At funerals we realise that the departed “individual” has lost its “life”, leaving behind its “life”-less body. The corpse has to be disposed of, because it starts to deteriorate. It will disintegrate, fall apart and return to “dust” from which it was constructed in its mother’s womb. The corpse goes putrid because its cells, although life-less, remain alive for the decomposition process; to return ashes to ashes. The corpse is disposed-of one way or another.
In organ transplanting parts are removed from a corpse, a body without life, but still alive for a while. The parts are kept ‘alive’ on ice for transport, and then connected to ’life’ in another body to restart their intended function. While the cells of a corpse are life-less, they remain alive for the decomposition process.
Similarly, a foetus is alive, while not yet having its own life. A foetus is growing but is not a new individual until it receives ‘life’ at birth, which can be premature. Killing a baby that has ’life’ could be murder or euthanasia; no life, no murder.
Conclusion: Abortion is NOT murder.
If you are, it doesn't matter what you think. Women carry babies, it literally taxes their bodies to the point that it can actually kill them to deliver, add to that the barbaric way some hospitals and doctors perform the delivery. It's only ever been their choice. I used to be an anti abortionist, now I'm a pro choice anti abortionist. Murder or not, outlaw war instead! Larry Flint had a very valid point, what's more obscene, humans having sex, which has been natural since our existence, or gutting someone because of our selfish desires for more whatever. Many anti abortionists kill doctors because they supposedly kill babies, contradiction? If a particular female believes it's murder, it's only murder for her. If another believes it's not murder, it's only not murder for her, anything less and females are slaves to selfish people, believing they are gods, which is totally evil! I get so sick and tired of warped psyches telling others what they should or should not do, in the name of their invisible gods, when according to them he weighs you in the end, sending you to hell if he so deems. In such a case, the contract is between their god and them and no one else. To hell with the would be gods of the world, lets string them all up, for their blasphemy, in the name of our god! Absurd!
