BarryP wrote:
That's fine. I don't have a problem with that argument. As I said, I was only pointing out that changing the outcomes of who could have been born is not really part of the equation.Well to put it in context I was replying to someone who said, “as someone who has had an abortion I don’t consider it a life...”
I figured since the door was opened to personal anecdotes I’d share some of my own which include the termination of s pregnancy for which I was half responsible and the attempted but failed termination of what is now my son.
And I pointed out how differently those things turned out. One fertilized egg survived an abortion and became what is now a teenager and the other fertilized egg that did not survive an abortion and became what is now source of emotional pain for the woman who had the abortion.
Like I’ve been saying here, this is a messy subject.
Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.
- Chinese proverb