User:Caius/Abortion

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Foetus = Human
Some pro-life supporters say that a fetus is a human, and that artificial abortion is equivalent to killing a child. Along these same lines, many anti-abortion groups also oppose birth control and embryonic stem cell research.
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 * valign="top" |By this logic you are guilty of murder every time you do not have sex or have sex with contraceptives.
 * Even worse, some doctors estimate that as many as two thirds of fertilized egg-cells don't manage to implant in the uterus, and thus could be considered miscarriages.

Every month a mature woman produces a potential human fetus. Various things have to follow the production of the egg - but it has the potential to become human. If we follow this argument to its conclusion would we not have to say that every time a woman does not have sex when she is in her fertile period she is guilty of murder? As for men - well every time we errrr .... shall we say ... have non-coital sex, how many "potential human lives" are lost? Can we really all be mass-murderers? On the other hand perhaps the Christian thing to do would be to constantly bonk each other all the time? I suppose I could live with that.
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Breast Cancer Link
Some people claim that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer.
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 * valign="top" |There simply is no link. See this article, by a real doctor (!).
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"Culture of Life"
Most pro-life arguments rest on the idea that a fetus is a full human being from conception, and that a fetus shares the same rights as any other human being. This argument is often linked to other "respect-for-life" issues (examples needed).
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 * valign="top" |Advocates of pro-choice generally believe that a human beings body is inviolable, and the state should not regulate it. Specifically, women should never be forced to be "incubators" for a fetus.
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