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HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion
Jimmy the Squid:
I think eating the flesh of a creature that is no longer using it is a little bit different to giving birth to a living being capable of complex thought that shares DNA with you.
That said, I am totally for abortion up to any point, so long as the mother/carrier/surrogate/whatever term you want to use is not going to be harmed. My own beliefs on morality place the life of the already alive over that of the pre-born.
Lines:
I don't really see the connection between eating meat and abortions. I'm sure if I had to kill a chicken to eat it, I probably could, but I would not, however, be able to have an abortion. I am pro-choice as I believe that people should be able to have a choice, but personally, no, I don't think I could do it. Especially not after the first trimester. (Note, I do not consider the morning after pill abortion and that is something I would take in case of an emergency.) Partial-birth abortions are the only ones I really have problems with people doing.
Johnny C:
What about eggs? They'd grow up into chickens at some point.
Liz:
Just the fertilized ones, Johnny. If you have a chicken coop full of only hens, they will still lay eggs but those eggs won't be fertilized and won't become little chickens someday.
Oli:
My opinion regarding abortion is that it is really none of my business except in the event that I accidentally impregnate a lady. In that situation I think I would be okay with an abortion at any point, but I'd probably go with what the lady wanted. Honestly I don't think that anything has a right to life (in the sense of being an independent and sentient being, not in the sense of existence because saying something has the right to exist is positively absurd) that exceeds the right of what someone does to their own body.
I expect a fair few people will disagree with me on this one though but that's okay, I have some odd views on morality.
Oh and for the record I eat meat because I'm a dirty great hypocrit and I'm more or less okay with that.
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