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If it's OK to have an abortion because the child MIGHT have a bad life, is it OK to kill a child in a bad foster care situation...?

because he IS having a bad life? There is an argument by some "pro-choice" advocates that it's better to abort than to have an unwanted child. But doesn't that logic mean that it's better to kill an older child because it's not wanted?

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago
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    Although I do not engage in arguments or debates, I choose not to abort. I gave birth to , and am raising alone, my rapist's child. I have come to love my daughter.

  • justa
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    It's a woman's choice, not yours. Period. She makes any decision that's right for her, her place in her life, and her decision as to whether or not to risk her life to bring another into the world. Women don't decide based on if the child will have a good life or not, in fact some of the worst mothers keep having baby after baby out of ignorance on how to prevent it, and no, of course a born, sentient independent life isn't going to be killed. Gross mischaracterizations like that bring the arguments to the level of a playground.

  • 6 years ago

    A fetus is not a child. It is a clump of cells, and is not viable until past the point abortion is legal (at least in the U.S., unless there is a large medical risk). If you really need a reason - bodily autonomy. Until you are Ok with your organs being forcefully taken, you should support that right. Someone else using parts of your body without consent, illegal. -- Would I ever have one, no (unless it was medically necessary). Do I believe in the right to choose? Yes. If you don't, don't choose it.

  • 6 years ago

    Of course not, the difference being that a child already born is a person, and a child not born is not. The logic does not follow as you think it does in any way, the two situations are entirely different.

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I'm Christian, love Jesus, and am pro life of the woman, her decision, not ours. God is sovereign and can have a baby born...let's not doubt. Satan has seed, offspring, and Christians are used, used up providing for

    tares.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    No one says that. What we do say is that it is the WOMAN's choice, not the government's, to make.

    On another note, this article will prove your point about gay people having equal rights to be 100% wrong:

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/york-gay-widow-edit...

  • 6 years ago

    Who is to say he won't be? Do you know the future? No, of course not.

  • 6 years ago

    A first-trimester fetus is not a post-birth child. As long as conservatives attempt to redefine "fetus" they will continue to lack credibility.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Trying to use logic with liberals is a losing proposition.

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