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Originally Posted by saden1
1. I posted a link to the CDC site so your stats actually have weight...I do read what I post.
2. It's not that I think they are lesser beings, it's that I don't think they are beings for the first few months. Yes, I am more concerned about the existence of human beings in the future than I am of fetuses getting aborted. There's nothing contradictory between the two positions.
3. Growing? Yes, living? No. Their lives are not discernible from that of the host mothers. She dies, they die...she eats, they eat.
It's not rationalizing, it's simple logic devoid of personal beliefs. And for the record, abortion isn't for me and my wife...and I certainly don't support abortion after 5 months unless there's an extraneous circumstance.
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1) I assumed you were being argumentative, since I had stated that I was using a biased site. If not then thank you for solidifying those statistics.
2) It is absolutely contradictory, but since that is beyond our ability to come together on, I will drop it.
3) For the point I made about you using a false argument, the fact that it is growing is enough. Spermicide alone will not stop the growth of what will eventually become a living being. Spermicide will kill sperm and prevent the growth from beginning, the 2 points are fundamentally different.
I think you and I are talking two different points; my initial response was to your calling a woman and her fetus a skank and her baby, saying it doesn't affect you, which I say makes you heartless towards humans who are living, compared to false heartache when crying over the possible end of human existence. If you can not ache for this lady and her baby, you can not convince me that whatever you claim to sense about the end of humanity, is more than a selfish claim to immortality through the ongoing existence of the human condition. It is self evident, but you cannot acknowledge it, because it would in the end unravel that truth which you hold dear - that humanity is it's own god and controller of its own destiny. But in fact we are not. and we do not. There is a greater being, a maker who has given you life, and one day will allow this human existence to end.
You on the other hand seem to be claiming that self interest, which has to be based on some personal belief, is a simple logical statement. Which again seems illogical.
But all in all, you prove yourself by your own words. you ache for those who will not be born, but could care less for the lady and baby(your word) who is suffering, or to be aborted, today. I understand your position. Thanks for clarifying.