It's like playing whack-a-mole around here. Ok Rusty, let's take your points one by one...
1) Fetuses are lesser humans. There's no way around it, they just are. They're lesser humans than anyone that has actually been born and can survive on its own. (Someone mentioned in this thread that the least gestated fetus was like 20 weeks or something. Well, hardly any abortions at all occur after 20 weeks. I didn't realize there was a bill for this under consideration, but I probably would support a solid ban on abortions after 20 weeks (including cases of rape or incest): http://theweek.com/articles/579065/why-liberals-should-support-banning-lateterm-abortions
Are you telling me a 2-week old, or two-year old, can really "survive on its own"? It can't. Which is a big reason why birth is an arbitrary and illogical dividing line.
BTW, that "bill under consideration" is currently being blocked by the ghouls in Congress - Democrats.
2) Sundance had a great post about how losing a fetus doesn't affect society one bit, and he's right. I've always been firmly anti-death penalty, and had trouble with people who were both pro-life and pro-death-penalty, and vice versa. But the death penalty is carried out by the state, which is scary as crap. I'd be firmly against state-mandated abortions, as well.
By that same logic, losing a 2-week old or 2-year old doesn't really affect society one bit, either, does it? In fact, if you were really ghoulish, I bet you could argue (as some on this board have) that aborting babies is actually
beneficial to society. From there, the same logic could apply to people post-birth (again, there is no logical reason to use birth as the dividing line - see above). A "society" that places itself above innocent human life is not much of a society at all. It is barbarism.
3) The mother's rights. It's easy for Yard Dog to just tell a mom to suck it up and put it up for adoption, but pregnancy is some serious crap that he doesn't have to deal with, even if he's the father and he told the girl she wouldn't get pregnant if she was on top. The only person that really has to deal with it is the mom, and to a lesser degree, society. The fetus is part of her body, she should decide what to do with it.
I've got news for you - abortion is "some serious crap," too. And how do you square your mother's rights with getting behind a bill that prohibits abortion after 20 weeks? Even you have decided that - at some point prior to birth - that human life should be given value over a mother's whim to kill it.
