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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I fail to see where you are giving any weight at all to the mother's interests. It sounds like you think abortion is OK only if the fetus is entirely oblivious to whatever it experiences. It's not really "balancing" if one side of the scale has nothing on it. It is analytically, simply, I grant you, but only at the cost of ignoring half of a difficult moral equation.
I think most people are of more than one mind about abortion. A majority is uncomfortable with the idea of forcing a woman who has been raped to have an abortion.
Most people probably don't agree with your view of property rights. You should not lose your right to expel strangers from your apartment simply because they generally think that have a right to come and visit.
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I give less weight to the woman's rights because she is not potentially being killed as a result of my decision. Seems logical, doesn't it? You seem to think there are equal items on both sides of the scale. I do not. Perhaps one day science will reveal that is not the case, but until then, I find it prudent to error on the side of life (just like I do on the death penalty).
I don't understand your comment on forcing a woman to have one.
