koidog said:I simply do not get the choice Made to get pregnant in the first place. yes CHOICE
dinojs said:You have got to be kidding. The rate of abortions of people who choose to get pregnant has got to be minute. The cognitive processes going on when about to have sex, especially after say some alcohol, does not deserve the same verb as what you decide to have from the restaurant menu. The human physiological makeup is surely stacked against a cold analysis 'in the heat of the moment'. Never been there? Sorry about that Koidog! But to have to live with that..to HAVE TO live with that...bring up, care for, provide for, an unwanted child, with much in society on your back (haters of welfare, lack of childcare, single parent discrimination, cost of education....) it seems draconian to not allow people to make their own choices about abortion.
You're thinking irrationaly. I honestly doubt there are 1.5 million familys every year that can afford a child. Especially with THIS economy.Redneckman said:All kinds of qualified parents want to adopt. Doesn't fit your wacked out view though does it Funk. Come on Lander, the one thing we agree on, make your presence felt. And xpanda, what the hell does race have to do with it????? I thought conservatives were the ones that thought of everything along racial lines. So much for that theory.
Redneckman said:Then why did you conveniently leave out the overall black population in the U.S. is much lower than 30%.
barman said:KOIDOG offers: Funny, I find it draconian to kill a child.
SH: Who doesn't?
Meanwhile, count me as one who would consider it draconian to take a female who terminates a pregnancy and prosecute her for infanticide.
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xpanda said:"Conveniently leave out"? It wasn't relevant, or at least it wasn't relevant based on my interpretation of TRS's original statement. (Which was loosely written, and easily misinterpreted, as I did.)
And why are you attacking ME for making a race-related comment, but not attacking TRS for bringing it up in the first place? If race has nothing to do with it (with which I agree, this is a property rights issue, imo) then the little factoid that 30% of the population is black is also irrelevant.
Now who's hammering the point about race?
Sheesh.
And I'll add: I don't even like coming into these threads. A bunch of men yakking about what rights women do and do not have to their own bodies, and that which attaches itself to it, as though a foetus were somehow, magically, a separate thing and not of our dominion. None of you have a clue, no matter what side of the issue you fall on. I apologise for that dismissive position, but I'm tired of men who think that their opinion of what goes on inside my body is as much their business as it is mine. It isn't, and it never will be.
Redneckman said:Cool argument. Because I have a dick, my thoughts don't fucking matter. Too bad that wasn't the case in Roe v. Wade I guess.
koidog said:I'm sorry I should have made it more clear:
The CHOICE to FUCK and not be aware of the consequences.
Funny, I find it draconian to kill a child.
xpanda said:Not because you have a dick, but because you don't have a uterus, and as such, have no clue as to the ramifications of your position. Unless you're willing to have an argument about property rights, generally, and not some kind of moral servitude, specifically, I don't give a crap what you think of abortion.
Your apology about that whole race thing is accepted, btw.