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Author Topic:   Legal Death, Legal Life, Personhood and Abortion
riVeRraT
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Message 225 of 316 (186112)
02-17-2005 7:21 AM
Reply to: Message 210 by Asgara
02-16-2005 8:22 AM


Re: Missed Point
can your opinion on it overrule mine?
No it cannot, and I am sorry if your offended.
Would you share with us what it was like, and what emotional experiences went along with it, or would you prefer not to?

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riVeRraT
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Message 226 of 316 (186114)
02-17-2005 7:29 AM
Reply to: Message 211 by nator
02-16-2005 8:28 AM


Re: Missed Point
The only thing I got from that is this:
With more than one in five of its children below the poverty line, the United States has the largest number of poor children. (United States also has the largest number of rich children in the world).
How screwd up are we?
The rest of the world suffers, and our own while a bunch of rich people sit on the asses?
I'm not saying we should do something about it, but the rich should, voluntarally.
Those are world wide statistics, and part of the reason why I am in Hope for the Nations.
I thought we were only discussing what happens here in America, since our medical programs are a little better than those poor places, and it's the only place where our vote will make a difference.

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riVeRraT
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Message 227 of 316 (186116)
02-17-2005 7:41 AM
Reply to: Message 212 by nator
02-16-2005 8:37 AM


Re: Missed Point
Ok, this is better.
7.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births during 1982-1996.
I wonder out of those, how many were people that were warned of a risk, and decided to take it anyway?
But it's a pretty low number.
Also out of how many of those are people that didn't want to have children.
I'm sure we get a percentage that is less than 0.01%. Not too bad.
Looks like we've improved greatly:
In 1930, the national maternal mortality ratio was 670 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births
You do understand Schraf, that I am for the woman. The woman should always come first. I am against using abortion as a form of birth control. So it may appear that I am aginst what you are saying, I am actually for it, if it concerns the woman. (Don't tell me again that all pregnancies have risks, please).

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riVeRraT
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Message 235 of 316 (186322)
02-17-2005 5:43 PM
Reply to: Message 215 by Silent H
02-16-2005 12:43 PM


No, you said it is also okay when the life of the mother is at risk or the gestational being is going to be dead anyway
Yes I know. You can point out the mearly obvious to me, the incredibly obvious I got a grip on.
In any case, while sex is intentional, reproduction is not.
This ladies and gentlemen is the whole issue summed up in a few elquent words. That's just awesome. I really can't believe people can think like this. If everyone would realize that when you play with fire you might get burned, we would all be ok. It's so simple, a child could figure it out, why the rest of the world has such a problem with it, including myself, is the bigger question.
What is the difference between a woman getting pregnant when she didn't want to just because in one case a person forced the sex upon her, and in another bad luck forced the reproductive cycle upon her?
You mean you really don't know the answer to this one?
I'll give you one more chance.
The first sentence is about the most meaningless thing I've read in some time. If the trauma never surfaces in a person's lifetime, that would be "no trauma". The second sentence is a bunch of garbage. Who the hell ever said it was casual and harmless? It is a medical procedure (which usually brings some emotional issues) and the woman will likely face post-partum depression, just as she would if she had the child.
Yes I agree with you, and I do not believe that it sinks in and never surfaces. We are the sum of our experiences in life.
Ironically, pregnancy is not as harmless and casual as the anti-choice crowd insist.
Another good reason to not play games with life, and only seriously consider having sex, unless you are willing to take the risk.
You are not LIABLE when you have taken adequate precautions.
Yes you are. Show me one birth control package or drug that claims 100% effectiveness.
Let's stop right here, and I want to ask Holmes a question, please no one else from the peanut gallery answer:
Do you think abortion is a form of birth control?
I said if pregnancy was a snap most women probably wouldn't have abortions. Do you really think this isn't true?
You and schraf, have to own up to this statement. Do you think that woman are having abortions because while they don't mind kids, they are afraid of being pregnant?
Go back to sleep if you think that cheap trick is going to work on me. I actually have a thought out position on this subject. No, the attacker is not guilty of murder.
Do you have kids?
How do you feel about the outcome of this story?
Error
He used it to find characteristics that are important in defining what a person is. It did not hinge on facts of whether the criteria were forever lost or not.
Yes, I know that clearly, and I disagree with both of you. The fact remains that it absolutly hinges on the criteria being forever lost or not. It's a ghost of an arguement.
You do not need any law, or act, or even half a brain to know that if you rip a gestational being from a womb, it will die, unless it has developed enough. That fact that it can, or cannot survive on its own, means nothing to it's personess. Since when do we ignore time, or control it, because that's what your attempting to do.
This is a contradiction. By the way, how come I am a product of the same society and I never had a pregnancy, nor an STD despite much unmarried sexual encounters? Maybe its because I knew that if you truly wanted to avoid any pregnancies you had to have nonvaginal sex or layer protective options?
Awesome, your better than me. I hope and pray that you never have to experience what I did. Listen, I had sex with only 3 women in my life, and I was engaged to 2 of them, and the third one I married. I am not a careless person, and I did not feel I deserved what happened to me. But now that I believe in God, and he blesses me with knowledge and wisdom from the Holy Spirit, I now understand why it happened to me.
Just like you probably drive a car around. Despite knowing the rules of the road and keeping your car maintained, if one day the brakes just give out, you would not be responsible for what happened next... right?
Depends, if the manufacture told me the brakes were 100% reliable, then I wouldn't. But we all now that nothing mechanical is 100% perfect, so it's a risk we take.
If I crash and die from it, I cannot get an abortion and make it all better.
If you wanted sympathy you could have just said that you had made a mistake and learned the lesson that one should not take the choice of abortion lightly, and should consider your deeper feelings about the nature of life because it could haunt you... there is no taking back the choice.
That's what I'm saying.
Separate from that, I am having a stance on abortion, and it is not based solely on what happened to me.
On the othert hand pro-"Life" people generally want to cut sex education so people don't know how to have sex and not get pregnant, or signifcantly reduce the chance of pregnancy, are for cutting out contraceptive funding and distribution, and when a woman gets pregnant and decides to have a kid, are generally unconcerned about the child after it is ununborn.
Are you for real? That's such a blanket statement, I'm not so sure about that one, and that is not what I have witnessed in my life.
It's is definatly not the goal of the 2 organizations I am involved with.
Just a thought, one of my sons did not know what sex was. We thought we should teach him, so that he learns it from us. So when he was 9 we gave him a book, and explain the birds and the bees to him. He is 22 now, and he just admitted to me the other day, that he used to masturbate to that book, and before that he didn't masturbate.
There is more to that story, and it's not good. It goes along with how screwd up society is. So take what you want from that story.

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riVeRraT
Member (Idle past 446 days)
Posts: 5788
From: NY USA
Joined: 05-09-2004


Message 237 of 316 (186325)
02-17-2005 5:47 PM
Reply to: Message 219 by RAZD
02-16-2005 8:35 PM


Re: Missed Point, AGAIN!
I use the legal death act to describe the minimum level of existence that can be considered to be a human life.
Same thing in my book, who cares how you label it.
You cannot use the legal death act for any portion of your essay in my eyes, because it does not portray the truth in life, or does it account for time. Time is real in case you haven't noticed.
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riVeRraT
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From: NY USA
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Message 239 of 316 (186331)
02-17-2005 5:58 PM
Reply to: Message 220 by RAZD
02-16-2005 8:46 PM


Re: A person put on life support is not dead and a dead person is not put on life sup
Apparently you do not understand why the legal death act was put into effect.
It is so that people who are dead, can die.
The fetus does not own the womb, but it is part of it, at that point when it attaches itself.

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riVeRraT
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From: NY USA
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Message 240 of 316 (186332)
02-17-2005 6:01 PM
Reply to: Message 228 by CK
02-17-2005 8:03 AM


Re: Missed Point
I'm sorry I don't get your question? They WANT children but decide to have an abortion?
Exactly, and it's not my question, it's schraf's statement.

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riVeRraT
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From: NY USA
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Message 241 of 316 (186334)
02-17-2005 6:05 PM
Reply to: Message 229 by nator
02-17-2005 9:37 AM


Re: Missed Point
Got some time on your hands?
I want to debate, but I must go spend quality time with my kids, besides, I think I am starting to repeat myself, and that gets annoying.
I feel we both have good points, but just where do we draw the line, and just how valuble is life?

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riVeRraT
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From: NY USA
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Message 242 of 316 (186337)
02-17-2005 6:07 PM
Reply to: Message 230 by nator
02-17-2005 10:23 AM


Re: Missed Point
Bush has consistently blocked any funding for family planning services around the globe.
Well he's just craphead, isn't he then?
Yea let's spend 80 billion+ on war, and forget about human caring. Not the Christian I pictured.

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riVeRraT
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Message 243 of 316 (186339)
02-17-2005 6:10 PM
Reply to: Message 231 by nator
02-17-2005 10:28 AM


Re: Missed Point
What are you doing to promote contraception use to make abortion rarer?
Is everything my responsibility?
You lay a lot on me don't you.
I teach abstenence to my children, and if they can't control themselves to use contraception. What more can I do?
There is no easy way out.

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riVeRraT
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Posts: 5788
From: NY USA
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Message 244 of 316 (186341)
02-17-2005 6:14 PM
Reply to: Message 232 by Asgara
02-17-2005 10:51 AM


Re: Missed Point
My stance on abortion does not solely come from what happened to me, but the sum of life experiences, and how I value life.
I would choose #2 with a few more reasons why it would be ok to have an abortion.
Mostly, I am against using abortion as a form of birth control.
Your opinion is your opinion, and I respect it, even if I do not agree with it. It is the sum of your life experiences.
So you felt nothing afterwards?

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riVeRraT
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Posts: 5788
From: NY USA
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Message 251 of 316 (186459)
02-18-2005 8:17 AM
Reply to: Message 245 by AdminPhat
02-17-2005 6:28 PM


Re: Talking to oneself?
I guess I should read everyone's replies, and then summerize, but then it gets impersonal, and people miss my reply. I usually only have enough time to respond to the notification in the e-mails, and not browse the entire thread.
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riVeRraT
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Message 252 of 316 (186475)
02-18-2005 9:27 AM
Reply to: Message 246 by Silent H
02-17-2005 6:47 PM


I think your not reading the whole thread or following all the conversations.
Let's see if we can condense this a little.
Once again I will point out that I am not telling you what to do with your life.
That is not what this is about. I haven't told anybody to do anything. I have mearly stated that if you have sex, you can get pregnant.
Name them.
I did ealier. I even supplied links.
This whole thing is about life. Life is a gift and a blessing whether you believe in God or not. It is after all, how we got here in the first place to debate this. Most of the people in the world would agree including RAZD. I can't find the thread now, but it was the discussion that spawned this thread again. RAZD states that all life is valuable(something to that affect).
This is also apparent in how many life saving organizations there are for people, animals, mammals, and plants in the world.
So we can safely say that the priority of maintaining life is a high one. Since it is the act of intercourse that starts life, it then becomes our responsibility to control it. I do not think it is right to play games with life.
If the pregnancy due to complications is going to lead to death of the mother, or the child would be born dead, or a persons life was violated by rape, then I am for abortion.
But if it is a willful choice of 2 consenting adults (especially married ones) then I do not think we should be trying to control life with abortion. It doesn't make any sense to me, and I consider it destruction of said life. I have listened to everyone's points on this and given it fair chance. I cannot be for something that destroys life. (although I am probably am in some way shape or form that I do not know about, because many things destroy life). I also feel that sex is the gift of sarting life (or trying to), it's probably the reason why we have an orgasm, because of the beauty of starting life. I do not feel we have the right to abuse this, simply because it feels good. It's almost as if the act of having sex without the intention of starting life is an abuse. The right to have sex is a right given by man, like we have sme kind of control over it, not by life itself. But somehow life seems to find a way through regardless. so when we fail at trying to stop life from ever forming, then what do we do? Rip it out, and kill it. I do not find this acceptable.
Like RAZD says life started 3.5 billion years ago, and I think we owe it to life(or whatever started it) to respect it. Since we are not exactly sure what or who started it. If it was God, then we are definatly doing the wrong thing, and we are a people of the earth, a human race, and our collective decsions on life affect all of us.
If everyone started thinking of the human race as one, then this world could start to be a better place. Abortion seems to go against this way of thinking. That's what John Lennon wanted in his song. He left God out of it, because he felt the belief's of people where getting in the way of accomplishing that goal. but I believe it is God's desire for us to be as one, but he knows this will never happen.

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riVeRraT
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Posts: 5788
From: NY USA
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Message 253 of 316 (186479)
02-18-2005 9:31 AM
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02-17-2005 8:28 PM


Re: A person put on life support is not dead and a dead person is not put on life sup
If someone is declared brain dead, are they dead or alive?

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riVeRraT
Member (Idle past 446 days)
Posts: 5788
From: NY USA
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Message 254 of 316 (186482)
02-18-2005 9:34 AM
Reply to: Message 249 by Asgara
02-17-2005 8:35 PM


Re: Missed Point
You are advocating just that, that your opinion become law and outweigh mine.
Aren't you doing the same?
There are many laws in this world, should we just disregard all of them?
I never said you had to agree with my opinion.
Yes you are, you are asking me to say it's legal, and there-for ok. Why can't you respect that?
So you felt nothing afterwards
Where do you get that from what I wrote?
I was asking you, not telling you. Isn't it funny how you left the question mark out of my quote?
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