Debate:Should abortion be considered immoral in most cases due to adoption?

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[edit] Proposition

Should abortion be considered immoral in most cases due to adoption?

[edit] Yes

I believe so, with the exception the the birth or pregnancy puts the mother or child in danger. I'm open to any arguments you may have. And I hope I made this page correctly.ZeroIsLogic (talk) 09:03, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

[edit] No

Pretty sure this is an argument made a thousand times already, but I don't see anything immoral about terminating a three-week-old (or whatever age) zygote. If it has no brain activity it can't be immoral to terminate IMO. Wehpudicabok [話] [変] [留] 09:11, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

The arguments in favour of the free availability of abortion are not changed one whit by the fact that children can be adopted. To switch the argument around - would anybody who is presently vehemently opposed to abortion change their position if adoption (for whatever bizarre reason) were not permitted?--Bob"I think you'll find it's more complicated than that." 10:17, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Depends on which arguments, Bob. Because, personally, I was anti-abortion for a long time due to that argument. After all, hey, the mother can simply give birth to the child and give it up to adoption, right? And even if a foetus is not a full person, it's a potential person, so should at least be given some protection. But over time, I realized that this way of thinking was a little bit androcentric. After all, pregnancies are not exactly easy events. They can even damage the body. And to tell women "No, you have to have the nine months of pregnancy, you have to give birth", that means putting "cause" over an actual human being. The purpose becomes more important than the human - and that is dehumanizing. One could say, such thinking sees women as little more than birth machines. So, IMO, that is what's wrong with the adoption argument: You cannot force women to give birth, because that's just dehumanizing! Octo8 (talk) 10:56, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
This is a good argument I had not considered. I think you may have just moved me back to "On the fence."74.83.124.115 (talk) 11:34, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
That was me. I got signed out.ZeroIsLogic (talk) 11:35, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

How about this: Should birth control also be considered immoral due to adoption? ЩєазєюіδWeaselly.jpgMethinks it is a Weasel 11:01, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

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