
Originally Posted by
Smoking Wizard
Yes, I agree that the morning after pill and a (regular) abortion are different things, medically. From my personal ethical and philosophical view, if the egg has been fertilized, the human life already started. Mgtower couldn't phrase it better in his comment above. And if you wanted to be mean, you could point out that this was the classic catholic approach, but for me it holds also true in a biological approach. A fertilized egg is the beginning.
Yes, I agree that an abortion in case of pregnancies which would lead to the death of the woman should be legal.
No, I don't agree that the morning after pill should be classified as medicine, because a pregnancy is not an illness.
Where I am yet undecided is the question, if a woman should be able to abort legally, if she got raped. I know it sounds horrible, but let me explain. How do you make sure, that a woman who simply don't want the child, accuses the father of rape? If you, let's say, ban abortions, but you let women the option to declare that the child has been made by rape, what would be the consequence in our "rape, hookup, metoo, believeallwomen, etc." culture?
So, at this point we are in a crucial situation. We have to decide what would be more harmful, (1) men who get falsly accused of rape only because women want legal abortions, or (2) women who (really) got raped and have to bear the child of her molester...
Me personally, I would choose option (2) only because of the reason that in this case, you could save all three, not guilty fathers who got falsly accused, mothers who have to bear the child of their molester and the children who would have gotten aborted.
All you would have to do is let the government pay the women who got raped for bearing the child, and secondly if she doesn't want to raise the child, the government should be able to either organize the adoption of the child or raise the child in a environment which is protected by the government.
In this case, you could save men from getting falsly accused, the women would get something for their sacrifice and the children could live.
But maybe I'm dreaming and this is a bad idea. Let me know.
Sorry, I had to edit it again to add a short note: Let's assume that the people working in these governmental institutions are incentivized to have the best in mind regarding the child.