I can kind of understand it too, since fetuses are incapable of consenting to anything that happens to them, unlike a fully grown adult who is able to consent to physician-assisted suicide. It would be nice if we lived in a world where abortions were unnecessary and our right to a dignified, and peaceful death could be respected at the same time, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Personally, I feel like secular-minded people who are pro-life in regards to abortion have a much better case, since their desire to protect the unborn is based on humanistic ideas, rather than "cuz the sky dictator said so". It just sucks that they're vastly outnumbered by people who use the Bible to justify their position, even though the Bible fails to actually provide them with such a justification, since the Old Testament is plastered with instances of children, infants, and pregnant women being slaughtered with swords because the ancient Israelites were commanded to steal land from their neighbors by their leaders.
If the desire to protect life was motivated by empathy and compassion, then maybe we would see more pro-life people practicing what they preach by trying to come up with solutions that protect the unborn without violating women's bodily autonomy, such as building artificial wombs to transplant fetuses into during early stages of development. With technology like that readily available, we could Kyle XY this shit and abortions would become obsolete, removing any need for further debate.
Artificial wombs won't remove the need for debate, and abortions would still be sought out.
It's a much more complex issue than meets the eye.
Even if such medical technology or the like existed, you would then have to deal with the issue of obtaining the woman's consent to have herself cut open and have the fetus removed from her body and placed into the artificial chamber. It would perhaps prove to be an even more traumatic procedure than abortion.
Also, there are situations where the woman has no desire to see their fetus come to fruition, despite the lack of the usual grievances, because it would be intensely psychologically damaging.
For instance, there are women who have been raped who, under no circumstances, would be able to survive knowing that the physical embodiment/result of their assault lives on as a constant reminder (with progeny) for centuries to come, essentially providing their rapist with a living souvenir to display their continued power over their victim.
At the end of the day, it may come down to putting one life above another, or weighing one actualized person's quality of life against the underdeveloped existence and mere potential personhood of a fetus.
I don't see any near-future where women become so separate from their ability to bear children that it no longer necessitates the right to abortion.
However, you're still correct in much of your comment, like where you remarked on the desire to protect life not often being motivated by genuine empathy or compassion.
The topic goes beyond the woman's autonomy and stretches into societal issues and the ability or willingness of others to care for and appropriately rear all of these unwanted and possibly artificially nurtured babies (if the false womb was to be utilized).
Once the egg is fertilized and this "living entity" is growing I do not think this should be stopped from living and growing. I don't care about the details you have listed- this is my position on what I think is most ethical, that stopping this living being from living is ethically a very bad decision, because if allowed to continue to grow this baby or fetus or "living entity" could live a full, happy, long life. This"living entity" did not create itself, but now that it is living it should be allowed to continue to live is my opinion, since it did nothing to deserve to killed for. The details of your examples are not relevant to me at all, that are not relevant to my point of view on this topic at all. Millions of people are pro-life, and millions of people are pro-choice, and it will always be this way. I am not going to keep going around and around on this subject, I am allowed to have my own opinion. None of your examples are in any way relevant to my position on this subject.
Your view is very shallow and misses both the bigger picture and the smaller details of the sort of predicament where abortion needs to be an option.
You're allowed to have your opinion?
Sure. It doesn't mean it's based on sound morals or ethics any more so than the other side you allude to failing at the same.
It's easy for other examples and points to remain irrelevant to your position when your position is burying your head in the sand.
If allowed to continue growing it
could live a "full, happy, long life"ā¦and what do you suppose the other possibilities consist of?
Are you clairvoyant?
Do you even realize where you are and who you are surrounded by?
People who have suffered to the point where they deem their life not worth living, plenty preferring to have never been born in the first place.
And that's not even touching the surface as to the reasons why your stance is so problematic and harmful.
