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Abortion should be illegal
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I am not learned enough on the subject of prenatal development, so I can not argue where the line should be drawn, however after doing the research I believe people get a much better idea of where the line should be at from a scientific point of view.
Many people preach they are pro-choice, which is fine, but too often these same people, when pushed for more detail, do not have any scientifically backed point of view for what the deadline should be.
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Some people might even argue that once the woman becomes pregnant, then the fetus is automatically "living" since the fetus fulfills the criterias for a biologically alive animal.(metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli)
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@BaconToes
@Pogue
If the mother takes up the responsibility, then it is her job to take care of the fetus. I support abortion before 24 weeks, and that is plenty of time to get an abortion. Unless in a special case, for example if the mother or the baby dies, the mother should take care of the baby.
If I take up the job as a nurse, and I accept to take care of a patient who is on the verge of death, then I have taken up the responsibility. I should be sued if I decide not to do my job in the middle of taking care of the patient, and the patient ends up dying.
My argument is that if the mother doesn't do an abortion before 24 weeks then she has taken full responsibility.
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The taxpayers only pay for state-funded hospitals. Killing children would be the most heavily debated topic of abortions. People can argue that the fetus is not 'alive' since they are dependent on the mother. Some will say that the time when the fetus can survive on its own, it is considered 'alive.' Usually, it is 24 weeks like @Fascism said. The 8th week is important since it is the time the fetus starts to grow major organs. The 25th week is also important since it is the time when the fetus shows consistent brain activity.
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http://brainblogger.com/2009/05/10/medical-controversy-when-does-life-begin/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/child/alive_1.shtml
https://www.livestrong.com/article/222162-how-soon-can-a-baby-survive-outside-the-womb/
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The threshold for viability keeps changing so the 24 weeks is not concrete. According to wired.com
"When Edward Bell, a neonatologist at the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital, first began practicing medicine in the 70s, the line was 26 weeks. “The threshold has decreased by one week for every decade,” Bell says. “In the 90s we were all confident that 24 weeks was going to be absolute limit because of the biology.” But earlier this year, Bell published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine showing reasonably good outcomes in preemies born at 22 weeks of gestational age. Two key technologies have pushed that date: the use of steroids, which can speed up fetal development, and surfactants that prevent lungs from collapsing after birth. Still, setting an absolute cutoff for fetal viability is impossible. “It depends on how you define it. Is it some babies survive? Half survive? Or most babies survive?” Bell says. At 22 weeks, many of the babies that survive end up with permanent health problems or disabilities. Bell is wary of his research being appropriated by the debate over abortion. To doctors and scientists, the question of when life begins isn’t a matter of gathering more evidence. “The science has very little to do with the answer,” says Gilbert. Every iteration and advance in the lab make the question even more the purview of philosophers and theologians. And lawyers."
According to theoutline.com
"A systematic review published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2005 noted that to experience pain, the fetus needs neural connections into the cortex. The cortex starts developing around 23 weeks, but the full system doesn’t seem to take shape until well beyond the point of viability. EEG recordings, which track the electrical waves of the brain, “suggest the capacity for functional pain perception in preterm neonates probably does not exist before 29 or 30 weeks,” the review concludes. In The New York Times, Dr. Mark Rosen, the study’s co-author, compared the fetus’ lack of fully developed feedback loops — essential to experiencing pain — to a non-working phone. “You can make a telephone call, but not till wires that connect our phones exist,” he said. “You can say the wire now exists, but nobody’s turned the service on.” The 2005 review also notes that some of the central evidence used by fetal pain proponents doesn’t indicate anything of the sort; “administration of anesthesia and analgesia serves purposes unrelated to reduction of fetal pain, including inhibition of fetal movement [and] prevention of fetal hormonal stress responses.”' "These medical improvements raise a whole host of questions. A 2015 study in The New England Journal of Medicine documented a 5 percent survival rate among 22-week fetuses with intensive intervention at hospitals with advanced NICUs. The survival rate without severe impairment is 3.4 percent. When it comes to determining fetal viability, it’s also worth noting that the international scientific community takes studies of viability from the U.S. “with a grain of salt,” as Dr. Fisk said, since the data relies on asking women to provide the date they last had their period (not ultrasounds from the first trimester, the standard in many other developed countries) to determine the age of the fetus."
According to slate.com
"“Many scientists would say they don’t know when life begins. There are a series of landmark moments,” said Arthur Caplan, professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center. “The first is conception, the second is the development of the spine, the third the development of the brain, consciousness, and so on.” That perspective, it turns out, has deep roots. It’s also one that resonates for many pregnant women who experience the embryo’s gradual passage to personhood on a visceral level."
So now we know that the viability of a fetus is not determined, it is believed that it can not feel pain for up to 30 weeks, and scientists would say they do not know when life begins.
Also, a common argument I have heard is to put it up for adoption. However, according to bustle.com
"This implies that the only reason a woman would want to get an abortion is to avoid raising a child, and that isn't the case. Depending on the circumstances, the mere act of having a child in a hospital can cost between $3,000 and $37,000 in the United States. Giving birth is dangerous, too: In the United States, pregnancy complications are the sixth most common cause of deathfor women between the ages of 20 and 34. Even before birth, there are costs to pregnancy. In addition to the whole "carrying another human being around in your stomach for nine months" thing, many women, particularly teens, are shunned and shamed for their pregnancies — not only by friends, families, employers, and classmates, but also by advertisements in the subway. There's also the risk of violent retribution from abusive partners and parents. In short, there are a lot of reasons a woman might seek an abortion. Adoption doesn't address all of them."
Ultimately, why should anyone get to decide what a woman does to her body when it doesn't affect you.
https://theoutline.com/post/1144/the-pro-choice-movement-has-a-science-problem
https://www.wired.com/2015/10/science-cant-say-babys-life-begins/
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2017/04/when_does_life_begin_outside_the_christian_right_the_answer_is_over_time.html
https://www.bustle.com/articles/17141-how-to-argue-pro-choice-11-arguments-against-abortion-access-debunked
Oh and in some states, it is very hard to get an abortion because there are very few and restrictions are very tight. So they might not have been able to get an abortion by 24 weeks which you say should be the cutoff.
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They might not been able to get an abortion, but what we are saying is that they should be able to.
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I was arguing that a limit should not be at 24 weeks.
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Ohhh the prolifers make me laugh!
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p6M-VgXHwwdpJarhyQYapBz-kRc6FrgdOLFAd3IfYz8/edit
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Let me start by saying I don't think anyone can persuade you believe anything that you don't first want to believe. That is to say that any evidence or argument you may be presented with can be easily dismissed unless you genuinely "want" to give it some fair consideration.
My argument is simple.
In short, if now legal abortions can be shown to be a violation of the basic human and Constitutional rights of the children who are being aborted, then the laws which for now are keeping those abortions "legal " are themselves Un-Constitutional and must be overturned.
The debate can be long, drawn out, emotive and complicated or it can also be made quite simply.
I prefer the simple route.
For example, Under our current laws, a criminal who even accidentally kills a "child in the womb" during a criminal act can be charged with the murder of that child. It makes zero sense, logically, that a person who might intentionally kill that same child in an abortion other than to save the life of the mother be charged with anything less.
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As the Constitution is written today, it says that "all persons are entitled to the equal protections of our laws."
What part of that would you change?
Give me an example of your preferred wording.
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I agree that there are exceptions. My argument isn't that every mother is responsible after a certain period of time, however, for most mothers this would be the case.
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