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That's a true issue I'm also unsure of. However, if you grant that the fetus is a human, then surely the right to life must outweigh the right to convenience?
But is the fetus a human in any real sense of the word? Most abortions take place before discernment is as clear cut as some say it is. The most accurate description that I have come across is that it is a potential human but in the same breath it is also a potential miscarriage(as a great number turn out to be) and the question is, does this potential have rights? This for me is where the argument lies, and I am not decided on the principle at all.
But I do take issue with the word you use: "convenience". Being a father, I know that raising children is neither convenient nor inconvenient. It is quite simply the greatest commitment, responsibility and life altering event that a human being can have.
There is this general aura around the subject and some people make flippant statements like abortion is baby murder and people who murder their babies are just too lazy to figure out how a car-seat actually works.I don't think you fall into this category, but I think a lot of people don't realize how nuanced this debate is.
Take Ben Shapiro, who makes those kinds of arguments. I would love to know what he actually would do if his wife had an abortion and what he would do if she killed one of their young children. Would his reaction and feelings towards her be the same? I highly doubt it but according to his arguments he must react the same.
centrist If pure risk of illness is cause for abolishment of the risk, then surely highways should be banned as there is a risk someone will kill you while you are on it. Or for just posing a risk that someone while drive out of the road to kill a passerby. So the problem is rather "When is the risk too high?"
The analogy is problematic because it doesn't map the reality properly. In your analogy of risk, you leave out that people themselves are the arbiters of weighing their own personal risk. We don't force people to use or bar their use of thoroughfares. And if we told them driving for e.g. an Opel Corsa means you are 14 times more likely to die on the roads, it is still them that decides whether they continue their journey or call up the dealership for a trade in.
centrist But let's not use exceptions which are rare to justify people who clearly chose to have **** and knew the possible consequences, and who most likely ARE able to care for the child.
The vast majority of people who have coitus, have no intention of producing a child. I used the exceptions which are sadly not so rare as to not be mentioned as an extra spanner in the wheels. But there are few more things to consider, especially in conjunction with younger persons:
-Education
-The family or social environment's stance on education and on the act itself (Catholicism is a good example here, where it is better to be a young, single, pregnant woman than to be someone who uses contraceptives)
-The coitus instinct, which when repressed, usually leads to bad things(again Catholicism is a good example of the extreme).
From my personal experience, having raised a teenager, my wife and I took her to a garage, gave her twenty bucks and sent her in to buy condoms(so that embarrassment wouldn't result in pregnancy). When she started seeing someone seriously we discussed it with her and we unanimously agreed to a formal contraceptive regime. My wife and I did not have this luxury growing up in puritanical settings. The reality is that kids are horny, and will have coitus in a tree, if need be.
I also know that these contraceptive measures are not 100%. All of these considerations need to be factored in.
I don't think there are many people who think abortions are great. I have attended a couple and I can tell you neither I or those I was supporting(they were not mine) would think this was a thing to aim for.And I can also attest that the reason they had those abortions is not because they thought having a child would be inconvenient but rather that the responsibility was beyond them and the reasons were quite varied. One person suffered from chronic mental illness with a plethora of symptoms which I can tell you were not conducive to her own survival, let alone someone else. This subject is murkier than many people like to admit.
All in all, I am not comfortable in deciding it for others when it is clearly not a black and white argument with which you could throw all your moral weight in support for or against.
As to your edits: hilarious. I think they want us all to start talking like Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory. I have never used 'coitus' so many times before.