Eorl wrote:real life wrote:Eorl wrote:thunder_runner32 wrote:Quote:If you were the product of rape, and the rape had been prevented....you would be dead today.
you are wording this question incorrectly. You would not be dead....if you were never living. Other wise,people who don't have sex, would be murderers.
Yes I know thunder, it was a response to a similarly ridiculous statement by real life, who says his abortion survivor would be dead today if the abortion had succeeded.
Your comparison is ludicrous, Eorl.
If an egg and sperm never join together, there is no living being created. No pro-life people are suggesting that an unfertilized egg, or a sperm cell are living human beings.
Gianna Jensen was growing in the womb when a saline abortion was attempted. The chemical solution did not cause a complete abortion and she is alive still today.
Now perhaps you can address the question squarely (though I doubt it):
Would you have preferred that the saline abortion that was attempted had been successful in exterminating Gianna Jensen?
Of course not real life. You seem to forget (often) that I'm not in favour of abortion.
You are in favor of abortion being legal and readily available to anyone who wants one, are you not? Is there any legal restriction you are willing to put on abortion?
Eorl wrote:As for Gianna, without all the facts of this case (such as why it was attempted so late and why it failed) I'm not in a position to judge it (unlike you it seems).
The facts are readily apparent. Gianna was growing in the womb. A poisonous saline solution was introduced into the womb to exterminate her. The length of gestation is of no consequence legally since Roe v Wade did not prohibit this abortion and had nullified laws that would have prohibited it. So the abortionist was perfectly within legal bounds to perform the abortion.
Eorl wrote:The comparison is valid in the sense that she would not know if she had never been born....may I remind you (again) of the 50% of ALL foetuses who do not make it to birth ... none of them seem to be complaining, and nor would have the potential person who eventually became Gianna if the abortion had been successful.
All the folks that have been killed by drunk drivers last year are not complaining about it today either. What a lame argument you have come to.
Eorl wrote:You argue that no-one says a sperm is alive...why not? It all comes down to where YOU decide to draw the line for everybody else.
Actually what I said was that a sperm is not a living human being.
Why not? Well, like a lot of things in this subject that you do not seem to grasp, this has a simple medical answer.
A sperm does not have the required number of chromosomes to be considered a living human being.
Gianna does have the required number, and did at the time the abortion was attempted. She had a beating heart , brain waves and is still suffering today from the attempt on her life. An attempt that you have yet to denounce, but on the contrary, you have continued to assert should be kept perfectly legal.