The passing of the ill-named Reproductive Health Act on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, had New York Governor Andrew Cuomo cheering. So much so that he ordered various landmarks in New York to be lit up with pink lights to celebrate. Cuomo said that the Act is "a historic victory" in the face of a government trying to roll back women's "reproductive rights" and wants to make it a state constitutional right. I'm not quite sure why Mr. Cuomo thinks that people should have the right to kill babies, but he says that "We'll pass it next year; we'll put it into the ballot; we'll write it into the constitution." He thinks this law will be "prophylactic to federal action," which doesn't really make sense, given the fact that the federal government is superior to the states when it comes to determining the constitutionality of laws. This relates back to the Progressive Era, in which thoughts regarding women in society began to change dramatically. It continued throughout the ages, and now we have people thinking that killing kids is somehow ¨healthcare.¨
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42529/ny-governor-cuomo-celebrates-allowing-abortion-hank-berrien
Interesting take you have here. Personally, if I were to be pregnant right now I would probably exercise my ability to change that... but maybe that's just me
ReplyDeleteMaybe you shouldn't have gotten pregnant in that scenario?
DeleteI don't think most people realize (or agree) that an abortion in, indeed, murder. You definitely don't, judging by the contempt with which you speak about the unborn. Dehumanization allows people to do whatever they want to the subject in question. Slaves weren't considered people; thus, slaveholders could arbitrarily commit whatever monstrous violation against slaves they wanted. Jews were subhuman, according to the Nazis, so they had no problem with mass genocide. Likewise, the reason you believe it's okay to "terminate a pregnancy" (what a disgusting euphemism), is because you don't believe that the life inside of a mother's uterus is in fact a person.
I still don't understand how the phrases "kill babies" and "killing kids" re applicable. The fetus is not a baby, and isn't recognized in society yet as a fully-formed human. In addition, "killing" is a misleading term.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, scientists do technically consider fertilization to mark the beginning of one's life. However, calling the termination of one's fetus "killing," even though it is technically correct, attaches some extremely negative connotation and implications to it. By referring to it as killing, you are placing it on par, or at least implying that you are, with gunning a man down in the streets. No matter how opposed you are to abortion, you can't put these would-be mothers on the same level as serial killers.
And yet, I can foresee you coming back to the same point that it is, in fact, technically a killing. I would like to then ask the question: why is killing someone bad? We take it for granted that killing is a universally bad thing, but why? You can easily point to loss of consciousness, loss of relationships, loss of posessions, and the emotional effect an individuals death will indubitably have over their loved ones. But while the collection of all these things prompts us to believe that ending of life is a bad thing; however, none of these issues will arise with the "killing" of a fetus. I would like to further state that as killing generally implies facing all the negative consequences that I have listed above, referring to abortion as "killing" is not only biased but exeptionally misleading.
-Dillon Quicksall
Dillon, I was taking your comment very seriously and was about to provide a lengthy, very eloquent response, until you asked, "Why is killing someone bad?"
DeleteWhile your comment implies I challenge the immorality of murder, instead what I do is explain in detail why murder is immoral, and why these reasons are inapplicable to abortion, thus rendering the term "murder" inapplicable to abortion as well as showing that even if, on the most technical of levels, abortion is murder, then it is not morally incorrect. I do not intend to declare or imply that "Murdering/Killing someone is okay and am sorry if this is the way that it read.
DeleteAs for your mention eloquent response, I would be delighted to hear it.
-Dillon Quicksall
nah
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