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THis is mainly for argument's sake - I don't condone any hypothetical situations I raise in this post. I just want to hear and understand the other side of the abortion issue, with me being opposed to it. I took a while to write this so please let's discuss civilly. Here goes:
A mentally retarded person is a dysfunctional, sometimes underdeveloped, human being. So why shouldn't we kill them if we want to? What makes them people? There are some mentally handicapped people that are so severe that they are in a walker or wheelchair their entire lives and don't even speak - very analogous to how we define a fetus. What is human about them? That is essentially the same thing as an animal. They suck up a lot of tax money and are a burden for people as well. So why shouldn't we take them behind a chemical shed and shoot them? It might not be pleasant, but we could just pay people to do it so they make a profit off of it.
We can easily keep them from feeling pain too. If shooting them behind a chemical shed is ruled out as too vulgar (they are dysfunctional/underdeveloped anyway), then we would put them to sleep in a hospital and inject poison in their veins to kill them. They wouldn't feel a thing.
Given that both fetuses and mentally retarded people are severely lacking what the norm is for sophisticated brain functions, I don't see why killing one should be legalized and killing the other shouldn't be. If anything, maintaining the lives of mentally retarded people is far more cumbersome since they are parasitic to society, whereas a fetus is always potentially productive.
Another thing I don't understand is that why has abortion become such a women's issue? It takes two to make a baby. What if my future girlfriend gets impregnated by accident and doesn't want to have kids so she goes for an abortion? I on the other hand, would like to be a father and although I didn't plan it this way, I could look after the kid instead. Can my GF take 9 months of misery now if she doesn't have to deal with 18+ years of raising the child once born? Hell, even if neither of us wanted the kid, there are so many other options like adoption.
Can anyone answer these questions without insults?
In US 90% of fetuses are aborted when the parent finds out the baby would have Downs Syndrome.
This fact highlights the hypocricy revolving around the abortion debate, because 50% of Americans claim to be pro-life. It turns out that most of these "pro-life" people can't wait to abort babies which are not perfect.
If we allow the premise that killing an inconvenient unborn child is acceptable, then it is an easy step to euthanasia, and eliminating unproductive members of society that are a financial burden such as the handicapped, elderly, and so on. We are already on that road. Do we want to continue in this direction?
They have already tried that. It was the Progressive Era's fame to the perfect society.
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