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I am not arguing any of that. I am saying that it is inside the woman's body and living off of her, as long as that is the case I think that she should have the right to keep it or kill it as she sees fit. When you have a growth inside of you it is your right to kill it or keep it, the fact that it is another life separate of yours is immaterial--if it's inside of you and growing on you, even if it's something you did to make it grow--you should still have the right to keep it or kill it.That's the choice, I may not like it, but I cannot force anyone to live with something INSIDE their body that they do NOT want to be there. Sorry, but if you smoke cigarettes and get lung cancer you have the choice to kill it or live with it. Of course the analogy fails at some point, but there is no analogy to cover this--it's a uniques situation. I want to play god and tell others how to live too and I can't do it either.All of this hoopla is based on the judgment that fetal life is innocent, that other human lives can be taken because they are not innocent, and that there is something sacred about human life that does not apply to all other lifeforms. I don't buy it. There is no sanctity of life in our culture, to single out one kind of life and make it sacred, force one group of people to do all the work and suffer the consequences of bearing and caring for that life seems incredibly hypocritical to me. Life is life, it's all sacred or none of it is sacred, it all comes from the same source, we are all made of the same things.
I am not arguing any of that. I am saying that it is inside the woman's body and living off of her, as long as that is the case I think that she should have the right to keep it or kill it as she sees fit. When you have a growth inside of you it is your right to kill it or keep it, the fact that it is another life separate of yours is immaterial--if it's inside of you and growing on you, even if it's something you did to make it grow--you should still have the right to keep it or kill it.
That's the choice, I may not like it, but I cannot force anyone to live with something INSIDE their body that they do NOT want to be there. Sorry, but if you smoke cigarettes and get lung cancer you have the choice to kill it or live with it. Of course the analogy fails at some point, but there is no analogy to cover this--it's a uniques situation. I want to play god and tell others how to live too and I can't do it either.
All of this hoopla is based on the judgment that fetal life is innocent, that other human lives can be taken because they are not innocent, and that there is something sacred about human life that does not apply to all other lifeforms. I don't buy it. There is no sanctity of life in our culture, to single out one kind of life and make it sacred, force one group of people to do all the work and suffer the consequences of bearing and caring for that life seems incredibly hypocritical to me. Life is life, it's all sacred or none of it is sacred, it all comes from the same source, we are all made of the same things.
