2nd trimester abortions and later..its not a parasite its a baby..

United States
December 18, 2011 2:52pm CST
Watch this video and tell me how this child is not a baby: http://youtu.be/iccHiVY2Sjc Now take that baby at 24 weeks and keep in mind it could be any child that was aborted using partial birth abortion (after 20 weeks). How can that be considered an ethical thing for any doctor to do in cutting a spine of one of these babies to end its life? Why is it a doctor can go to jail for helping someone end their life in a dignified manner who is terminally ill and in great pain but its perfectly legal to brutal end the life of an innocent child that is healthy as can be?
3 responses
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
29 Dec 11
I would not ever have an abortion at any stage of pregnancy. I believe that life starts at conception. In my home country it is shocking that abortion is allowed up to 24 weeks pregnancy. I found out my second baby was disabled at 36 weeks pregnancy. I felt safe thinking they wouldn't offer me an abortion due to the fact I was in late pregnancy a matter of days or weeks from the birth. I had detailed scans, a offer of abortion, a view of the special care baby unit and a look at the birthing unit. I said no way to the abortion and that any midwife in the land would agree with me. I let my baby son be born and he is now 4 years old. All babies should be allowed to be born. Adoption is there if the lady doesn't want her baby. Abortion is not ethical.
• United States
30 Dec 11
No more unethical than forcing a woman to have a baby she doesn't want. Adoption is a costly process and the system has various flaws that either get kids lost in it or put them into homes where they aren't properly cared for. Besides that, giving birth has severe effects on a person's body. I wouldn't wish anyone having to go through a forced pregnancy, and on that matter, a forced abortion.
• United States
31 Dec 11
If adoption was as well funded as killing unborn children than it wouldn't be such a hard process.
• United States
31 Dec 11
"No more unethical than forcing a woman to have a baby she doesn't want." - Didn't you just say above that women who have abortions in 2nd+ trimesters do it for medical reasons?
• United States
19 Dec 11
The basic answer to why a doctor can go to jail for ending a cancer patient but not a fetus is because that's what the law says. In theory this would show that's what society thinks is important. Not so, in reality it's quite more about the money. The estimated medical cost for someone in their last few, years dying of old age, is in the millions. The average cost of birthing a child is roughly $10,000. Sorry to say, but an 80 year old woman with cancer is worth way more than a welfare queens baby. Personally, I'm pro-choice. Not because I'm for killing babies or whatever. I feel it's actually more humane in the long run. Not to mention very few of the pro-life people actually present a good argument beyond their mouths. When people who are so pro-life actually start adopting, fostering children, and generally accepting the financial and time commitments of would have been aborted children we can talk. If you need help understanding why things are the way they are, just remember the people who vote and make laws live in a magical land where the compromises of reality don't exist, and then assume they know what everyone else will do in a given situation.
• United States
20 Dec 11
You are probably right about the cost and being able to make more money off of a terminally ill patient than a new born but personally I feel that there is more to it than just that.
@marguicha (223783)
• Chile
19 Dec 11
It is interesting the simil you make between abortion and euthanasia. It seems that society has to change its ways of doing a lot of things. I have always felt that a dog has more right to die with dignity than a human being. People terminally ill and in pain should be able to decide about ending their life. Abortion poses this other problem shown so well in the picture. Yet some mothers cannot take care of their babies for different reasons. There should be a good adopting system for those unwanted babies.