Why are unborn babies not considered equal?

I don't want a no-exceptions law. I think Ireland has it right, abortion can be legal if the life of the mother truly depends on it. But, even if the mother cannot support the child, there's always adoption. As for your question, I believe abortion happens because people don't think it's wrong. I understand that many women have financial problems au it isn't the right time au those issues, which they have reason to care about. But they wouldn't murder their mothers even if that made their situation easier. They wouldn't even kill a bila mpangilio hobo they knew nothing about, because even if it somehow made their lives better, they understand that it is wrong. If people believed abortion was as wrong as it is, they would not abort, even if a baby would greatly disadvantage them. But it is wrong, at least in America. It goes against the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed kwa their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." kwa definition, create means to bring (something) into existence. Thus, unless fetuses have not actually begun existing, they now possess the same unalienable right to Life as all others in America. What I was trying to ask was why abortion is still legal despite this, and I do truly want to know how others see that.

Thanks for your rational answer to my first question, I appreciate it. Allow me to counter your quote with one from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document ratified kwa the USA among many other nations. makala one: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." wewe can tell how they took this directly from the Declaration. In this instance, the word "created" was changed/reinterpreted to "born" because "created" had religious connatations they did not want in a universal document meant to represent a variety of faiths and creeds. Now, I could sit here and quibble semantics with you, but the fact of the matter is that the word "created" is up for interpretation. A fetus exists, yes, but does an independent person exist? A human being that can exist seperately from any other organism, that can eat, breathe, and sleep as is our scientific definition of life? wewe see where this gets tricky. I don't want to get into the messy waters of where life begins. But I do want to address your swali now. For clarity's sake, I will do so in a follow-up maoni because I can't do paragraphs here. Hang on.

Your understanding of why women abort is not entirely off-base. But to say it's just to make their life "easier" I feel is to make light of the dire situations many of these women find themselves in. It's not about convenience, it's about survival, and wewe better believe that anyone would "kill" to use your term if it was a matter of survival. Why is about survival? Because many of these women have no other options left. A child could directly au indirectly mean their undoing, even death. For one thing, there are practically no programs available for new mothers in need to turn to, and any programs that exist are under scrutiny kwa the very same people who argue for a child's right to be born. I once alisema in my makala on this subject ("Why Women Abort") that to be truly pro-life, one must first support social programs that help desperate new mothers to support and raise a healthy, happy child. Unfortunately, many in the political arena in this issue argue for stricter abortion laws while at the same time arguing to cut funding to chakula stamps, welfare, public health care and education, the exact services that new mothers need the most. As wewe seem like a rational individual, I would presume that wewe support these programs as well, because to care for an unborn fetus logically leads to caring for the child that fetus could become, and taking care of that child. If it's society's responsibility to ensure that all fetuses have the right to be born, then surely it is society's responsibility to care for the children that have already been born. Abortion is legal today because 1) Personhood has been legally defined to start at birth, because that's when a baby can survive on its own. And 2) Because, frankly, it's safer and smarter. If we've learned nothing else from the drug war, we've at least learned that outlawing something doesn't give wewe control over it, but rather it means wewe are giving UP your control of it. kwa keeping them legal, we can ensure that they are safe, and give women as much support and as many options as they need, including pre- and post-procedure counseling to ensure that this is the only choice she has. Women and their partners (if present) agonize over this decision, and there are laws in place already that restrict abortion (no third trimester procedures, for example). But if wewe want to decrease the rates of abortion in this country, don't try and make the restrictions harsher. Instead, invest in its infrastructure. It may alarm wewe to know that the United States has one of the highest infant mortality rates of any developed country (yes, I alisema "developed). That is appalling. When I worked in public schools, I knew kids who would only come to school because it provided for free their only meal of the day. Think if wewe were a poor and unexpectedly expectant mother looking at what children in poverty face. Make that image better, and maybe you'll convince her that she does have another option. That's my suggestion, anyway.

I support alisema programs as much as a minor can, and I will act on my words once I have an income. I personally very strongly believe that society does have a responsibility both to ensure birth of all for whom it is possible, and support and care for any of those who's situation is dangerous. I realize this is not a very realistic goal, which saddens me, but it is my goal nonetheless. I thank wewe for your answer, and while I still don't necessarily agree with abortion, I have no hatred for any who perform such out of necessity, au even percieved necessity. My desire is to eliminate such necessity, and once accomplished, illegalize the process that could then only be performed out of spite au convenience.

To say that women who choose to have an abortion have a "dislike au hatred of the unborn" is completely unfair. Many find it an extremely difficult decision and one that they may continue to think about long into the future. Disrespectful to these women and their very real struggles to equate their choice with 'hating the unborn.'.

It's not always selfish though; what if the abortion is happening because the mother knows that the baby will be born with a deformity au some other major heath problem. In which case she's thinking of how hard it would be for the child and she doesn't want him/her to suffer. How about a very poor woman not wanting her child to grow up in poverty? Speaking of selfish; is it not selfish to think only of the unborn baby and not (say) a rape victim au a woman who could die during child birth? No hate intended towards you, just chakula for thought.

e lines of the rape case; what if the mother finds out she could die giving birth? If she didn't realize that before hand is it okay to force her to deliver knowing that it could [b]kill[/b] her...a living, aware, feeling, developed human being? And these are just a few reasons. Abortion doesn't [i]have[/i] to be selfish. Of course there are a handful of people who are getting them for selfish reasons, but honestly there's always that handful with everything. Sometimes it's simply in the best interest of the child.