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View Poll Results: Does abortion end a human life?
Yes 96 61.15%
No 61 38.85%
Voters: 157. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-26-2012, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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If you don't want an abortion, then don't have one.
This admonishment is stunning in its stupidity.

It is like saying "if you don't want murders to take place, then don't get yourself murdered".
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Old 12-26-2012, 10:26 AM
 
Location: Flippin AR
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Getting your period does not end a human life but it can signify that one has ended if you were pregnant. Menstruation happens because you are not pregnant. I would assume you know that much about biology. Periods don't end pregnancies. They signify you are not pregnant. Pregnancy begins with conception. From that point forward, all you need is to be given the time to grow up.
It's a line of circumstances that lead to the birth of a human being. You find that fertilization is the key point, with "no human life" on one side and a human life on the other. I don't find that point to be a logical dividing line.

When a human is in a bad accident and the brain dies, but that person is on life support in a hospital.
Everyone agrees that that person is still a human life. Yet most often, the plug is pulled anyway. Similar to a brain-dead person, a fertilized zygote may be terminated without "killing a person" as the anti-abortionists try to claim.
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Old 12-26-2012, 10:26 AM
 
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I voted Yes.

But I'm one of those anti-abortion yet pro-choices wierdos.
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Old 12-26-2012, 10:55 AM
 
Location: 9851 Meadowglen Lane, Apt 42, Houston Texas
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Does getting your period end a potential human life?
Same same.
A egg only has 23 chromosomes. A fetus has 46 chromosomes, all of them of a human being. Bad attempt at reductio ad absurdum
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Old 12-26-2012, 10:57 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Just want a feel for how the board divides on this issue.
I am not saying it is always wrong, but yes, it is ending a life...
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Old 12-26-2012, 11:00 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Does getting your period end a potential human life?
Same same.
Potential is very different than already!!!
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Old 12-26-2012, 11:03 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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the answer is up to the woman who has the abortion. I could care less what anyone else thinks besides her
or the one who chooses not to have the abortion: Always, abortion ends a life, this is a fact, not an opinion or a decision one makes. That being said, as I have posted many times, abortion isn't always the wrong decision but it is still ending a life....

Zimbochick, this goes for your answer as well. yes, it is ending a life, women can say it isn't a baby all they want, if it makes their decision easier, but it is still a living, breathing , thing...
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Old 12-26-2012, 11:06 AM
 
Location: 20 years from now
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IMO life begins at conception.

I also think that abortion is a legalized form of murder.
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Old 12-26-2012, 11:06 AM
 
Location: Geneva, IL
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This admonishment is stunning in its stupidity.

It is like saying "if you don't want murders to take place, then don't get yourself murdered".
Abortion is legal, and none of your business.
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Old 12-26-2012, 11:07 AM
 
Location: Pa
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At the very least it prevents it. That said so do condoms, the pill and abstinance. None of which is any of my business.
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