Abortion

Let`s start an internet flamewar. Because I doubt there are any pro-life
people on this website, I ask you the following:

How can a woman want to eventually become pregnant and carry the fetus to
term yet when she gets pregnant now have an abortion and not see the
contradiction? How is one fetus deserving of life and the other not? It seems
to me a real feminist wouldn't want her body being "used" by a fetus ever and
wouldn't want to become pregnant.

If these pro-choice women want to become pregnant now they should get their
tubes tied AND use hormonal birth control, a barrier method w/ spermacide, and a condom everytime they have sex. If they ever want to become a parent they should adopt.

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Well, you've touched on the cetral issue between pro-choice and pro-life.  Neither side agrees on definitions, so it's hard to even talk about it.  But to get right to the point:

In the case of unnatural methods of childbirth, the mother's body has decided it's time for the baby to be born.  It's time for the baby to come out, one way or another.  The specific method isn't the issue.  I'll get to the issue of medical premature birth in a moment.

The point is, a fetus is not a physioligically independant being.  It is absolutely dependant on the host mother to provide ALL of its needs.  Neither the mother nor the fetus has any choice in the matter.  Once it is born, the mother can be replaced by any number of other persons.  More importantly, it is not physioligically dependant on the mother.  Assuming a healthy birth, it has it's own respiratory system, digestive tract, and so forth.  No being has a right to exist inside another being, it is there by permission.  And, as such, that permission can be revoked at any time at the sole discression of the host.

Now, what about viable fetuses?  Do they have a right to live?  Well, if you ask me, no.  But there would be a simple way to find out.  Induce birth medically, and see how it fairs on it's own.  Chances are, it will die, and it's certainly unethical to create life merely to subject it to pain for the entirety of it's short existance. 

But, I will grant, some time before actual birth, the fetus could be viable.  So as far as policy goes -- and this is a comprimise, I would allow abortions up until the water breaks -- I would think it's fair to say that abortions are permissible up to the seventh month of pregnancy.  Anybody who's pregnant for seven months and hasn't figured out they need an abortion only has themselves to blame.