Originally posted by no1marauder
Freaky: If ANYONE truly thought they were killing PEOPLE when performing an abortion, there would be --- there SHOULD be --- war in the streets.
I wholeheartedly agree which is why all this "murder" talk from the whodeys of the world is mere shilling.
I don't know about that.
There is a movement (albeit small) to legalize "after birth abortion"
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-shocking-case-for-legalizing-infanticide-2012-2
Infanticide? Today? Alas, yes. In fact, although technically illegal, baby killing already is being carried out in the Netherlands as a logical extension of that country’s euthanasia license. A bureaucratic check list has even been published — including in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine — known as the Groningen Protocol, by which Dutch neonatologists determine which sick and disabled babies qualify to be euthanized. Indeed, according to two articles published in The Lancet, about 8% of all babies who die each year in the Netherlands (80-90) are killed by their own doctors.
But now, some advocates want to take the infanticide license beyond unhealthy and disabled babies, to include unwanted babies. A new article that has gotten much attention in the blogosphere, “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?” published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, asserts that whatever reasons justify abortion — and in the USA that means anything and everything — also support the right of parents to have unwanted infants painlessly killed.
While I don't think early term abortion is murder, I do think that killing a 20 day old baby is murder. But if society legalized it, would I go to "war in the streets"? I don't think so. Like most people, I'm generally not willing to put the safety of myself and my family on the line to save strangers and, though I'd find any such infanticide law exceedingly morally repugnant, I'd probably confine my protest to expression and the voting booth.
While I don't agree, I don't think considering abortion murder is an impossible position to take, especially late term abortion. Late term abortion, while proscribed in most states, is apparently legal in 7 states and DC.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/a-look-at-late-term-abortion-restrictions-state-by-state/448098/
I don't think the fact that abortion opponents don't take the streets and foment a civil war proves that they don't consider abortion murder.
Incidentally, I would support life imprisonment (or at least a long prison term) for "after birth abortion" but I will not participate in a riot when and if the first state allows it.