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Originally Posted by Ghost On The Highway
I've heard that argument several times before, and I'm pretty sure it's the basis behind the Catholic church's stance against contraception. In my opinion there is a difference, namely that contraception prevents pregnancy from ever starting while abortion disrupts a process that, left unaltered, would result in the creation of a human life. The union of sperm and egg is a life-producing process, each component on its own cannot create life. Taking this to the extreme, it would be a "sin" to have sex in the week after a woman's period, because there is no chance that conception may occur.
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Not to mention, if I may quote from Legally Blonde the Broadway Musical: "All masturbatory emissions could be called reckless abandonment".
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Originally Posted by ThrashAttack
All the hard work, everything about it
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Morally, how do you justify dropping a responsibility to a child/woman because it is too much work? I completely understand how having a child at 18 is a lot of responsibility, too much for a lot of teenagers, and why one would turn to adoption or even abortion, but I guess the flippancy with which you treat the subject is rubbing me the wrong way. I suppose part of it is that women can't afford to be flippant about this issue. Either abortion is legal or women are forced to carry through with pregnancies and their consequences while their sexual cohorts get away clean (of course, even with abortion there are physical, mental burdens to be had).