I'm good with that. If someone is always telling you exactly what you want to hear, they're spewing propaganda, not telling you what they really believe.
"For example, if the father wanted the child and the mother didn’t, it could be that the state would require him to be willing to take sole custody of his kid. "
Sounds reasonable. So if the father wants the fetus and the mother doesn't then the father should be given the fetus and host it.
If Tina and Peter are building a car from scratch and keeping it in Tina's garage, Tina has the right to say the car must be removed. Peter then has the right to put the car in his garage.
There was a time that I believed abortion should be legal, but not easy and certainly not past the point at which an infant could be viable outside the womb. My reasoning was something to the effect that bringing an unwanted child into the world might have worse consequences for that child than not to have been born at all. Gradually, I came to realize that my reasoning was faulty - many millions of examples exist of an unwanted birth yielding a life worth living. Using abortion as birth control is nothing short of murder and inexcusable in the modern day, scapegoating an innocent life for the convenience of selfish, careless people. when reliable birth control is cheaply and easily available. If a couple has unforced sex and do not intend or want pregnancy, how is it possible that pregnancy is not prevented? Of course, birth control is not fail safe, but a pregnancy requires both a male and a female, and they both should have equal say as to the outcome. Rape, incest and sex trafficking resulting in pregnancy is a different matter.
It would be a lot closer to the truth to say that believing that men having equal rights is the equivalent to men having some kind of special privileges is at the root of an awful lot of the modern problems we have in our overly feminized society.
I totally disagree with all of this.
I'm good with that. If someone is always telling you exactly what you want to hear, they're spewing propaganda, not telling you what they really believe.
"For example, if the father wanted the child and the mother didn’t, it could be that the state would require him to be willing to take sole custody of his kid. "
Sounds reasonable. So if the father wants the fetus and the mother doesn't then the father should be given the fetus and host it.
If Tina and Peter are building a car from scratch and keeping it in Tina's garage, Tina has the right to say the car must be removed. Peter then has the right to put the car in his garage.
There was a time that I believed abortion should be legal, but not easy and certainly not past the point at which an infant could be viable outside the womb. My reasoning was something to the effect that bringing an unwanted child into the world might have worse consequences for that child than not to have been born at all. Gradually, I came to realize that my reasoning was faulty - many millions of examples exist of an unwanted birth yielding a life worth living. Using abortion as birth control is nothing short of murder and inexcusable in the modern day, scapegoating an innocent life for the convenience of selfish, careless people. when reliable birth control is cheaply and easily available. If a couple has unforced sex and do not intend or want pregnancy, how is it possible that pregnancy is not prevented? Of course, birth control is not fail safe, but a pregnancy requires both a male and a female, and they both should have equal say as to the outcome. Rape, incest and sex trafficking resulting in pregnancy is a different matter.
The father should be advised about the abortion AND made fiscally responsible for
the child's upbringing.
You can't have one without the other.
That is true- the man has to take responsiblity for his part in creating the baby,
Women are NOT the property of men. THAT is a 6,000 year misconception and nascent root of ALL theologies, social problems and pathologies.
It would be a lot closer to the truth to say that believing that men having equal rights is the equivalent to men having some kind of special privileges is at the root of an awful lot of the modern problems we have in our overly feminized society.
"that men having equal rights is the equivalent to men having some kind of special privileges"
Hunh?
"our overly feminized society"
Double hunh?
But the baby is. It took two to create the baby, a man and a woman. That is a 6,000 year old truth.
Richard,
I think mammals have been around for a wee bit longer than 6,000 years. The number is well into the tens of millions.