lutronhill:

(Link to an article entitled: An ‘Ethicist’ Argues for “After-Birth” Abortions)

Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, I think you should ask yourself a simple question. Who decides if you get to live?

By what criteria does someone get to decide that can live and when is someone legally and ethically allowed to take your life? Is there a time when all of a sudden it becomes acceptable to decide for someone, whether they can live or not?

What does it say about our society, that we have distanced ourselves so far from valuing life, that we can so callously end it just as it is beginning?

In this article, the author makes a great point. If you think it’s okay to abort the baby inside the mother’s womb because it’s “not a person,” why change your mind when the baby is outside her body?

I thought the “after-birth” abortion explosion was over months ago.
There is no such thing; You can’t terminate a pregnancy if the pregnancy was already ended via a birth. What you’re describing infanticide, which is illegal and awful and I won’t say much more on that because it is not comparable to abortion. The fact that some people can’t tell the difference between killing an infant and killing an embryo really worries me.

“Who decides if you get to live?”
Generally speaking, I do. I not only was given rights at my birth, but am not using anyone else’s body for all of the body processes keeping said life going, so nobody else has a say in the matter but me.

“we have distanced ourselves so far from valuing life, that we can so callously end it just as it is beginning?”
I’m pro-choice because I value life.
I think raising a child is a very arduous task that not everyone can do. Only people who are really dedicated to having children should have children, for the sake of the child’s life. Our newest generation deserve to have a good childhood and to be raised by able, loving parents that can rear them and teach them what life is like. You shouldn’t ever be forced into being a parent, and a child shouldn’t be used as a form of punishment against an adult. I value life, and I think every born child should have a good one.

Also, humans are not the only things that are alive. Eggs and sperm were alive before conception, etc etc etc.

If you think it’s okay to abort the baby inside the mother’s womb because it’s “not a person,” why change your mind when the baby is outside her body?
Because 9 months gestation is long enough to make a fetus developmentally sound enough for it’s own body to sustain it after birth? Because anyone going through the entire pregnancy most likely wanted to have a child? Because once it’s born it gets it’s own personal rights? Because once it’s born it is no longer living inside someone else’s body? There are lots of answers to that question.

Whether you think an embryo is a person or not is irrelevant to me; if something is using your body without your consent, you are allowed to make it stop if you want to. Or in the case of an embryo, you can continue to let it do so until it is strong enough to be born and no longer use your body. Whichever you want; you can choose what to do with an unwanted embryo inside you.