Here's the twist. You actually have to [i]defend[/i] your vote. Back it up with actual reasoning. Explain to me how you arrived at your particular choice.
Otherwise, you are either allowing others to choose for you without critical thought, or you are making a choice based on nothing.
I believe abortion is acceptable only when the mother's life is in danger. The debate really comes down to whether you believe a fetus constitutes a human life with rights. I believe it does. I believe this is a self-evident premise & that cut-off points advocated by supporters of abortion are chosen in an arbitrary way. Therefore, it is not acceptable to end the life of a human being. If the mother is inconvenienced by her pregnancy, too bad. That does not give her the right to kill another person just to alleviate her own burden. Maybe she should have not gotten pregnant in the first place.
However, abortion is acceptable when the mother's life is in danger because (obviously) the mother is a human being too, and therefore she has the right to defend her own life. It is my moral and ethical position that all people have the right to defend their own lives when threatened against any assault, using any means necessary. In this case, it becomes a "survival of the fittest" scenario, and the mother gains the right to exercise her fitness as a fully grown, mature human being over the undeveloped fetus leeching away her life force.
See? I stated my position and made a logical argument supporting it. I made my premises clear and explained how they led me to my conclusion. Why do abortion advocates have such a hard time doing this in a logically consistent way?
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I think that the choice should be the mother's, always. I don't care why someone is pregnant, that's their business. And if someone wants to end their pregnancy, that's their business too. Someone ending their pregnancy has no effect on me or anyone else, nor does it affect society at large. I think that the 24 week mark that the Supreme Court set is a fair compromise for states to be allowed to follow when regulating late-term abortions (except in cases of -blam!-, incest, and the life of the mother being in danger). Furthermore, I think that abortions should be regulated strictly as a medical procedure, not a moral issue. Getting an abortion is, in most cases, a simple procedure that only involves the woman taking a pill to induce a miscarriage. The danger of abortions is [url=https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/12/121781/major-complication-rate-after-abortion-extremely-low-study-shows]extremely low, [/url]and it's less likely that a woman will die from abortion related complications than from [url=https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/12/121781/major-complication-rate-after-abortion-extremely-low-study-shows]childbirth related complications.[/url] In short, it should be as simple to get an abortion as it is to have any other minor medical procedure.