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paper_turtle
- What about...?
In response to
What about...? posted by
BrianTubbs:
Brian wrote:
What about the baby?
What we can only have an opinion about, but not know **for a fact,** is: when does a foetus become a human being? I don't believe a foetus is a human being until it has the ability (or at least a reasonable possibility) to live on its own, outside of the womb.
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What about the baby who is born so deformed that it will never know a normal life?
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What about the baby who will only live for a short amount of time and then will die anyway, possibly with great suffering?
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What about the baby who is born into extreme poverty, or unwanted, or to parents who are (for whatever reason) completely unfit to be parents?
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What about the baby, when choosing the baby's life over that of the mother, means other children, already living, will grow up without a mother?
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What about the baby who is already dead in its mother's womb? Would you insist she should carry that child to term? Do you have any idea how cruel that is?
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And, frankly, I am a little unsettled at the insinuation that because I'm a man, I'm unqualified to ask such questions or speak to this issue.
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If there were moral/ethical issues regarding prostate health or male pattern baldness, I would not presume to know how it would feel to be a male with those conditions, nor would I presume to know what would be right for a male.
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You simply do not know what it is like to be a woman. You might be able to identify with a woman's feelings. You might have sympathy for her situation, but you have no idea how it feels to be pregnant, all the issues involved, for *any* woman, whether or not she is considering an abortion.
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peace and love,
Paper Turtle
