A Perfect Argument for Legalising Abortion
This was in response to a post on the /r/ChangeMyView subreddit. I really liked it so I will post it here. You can see the original here.
There are two sides that you MUST consider, and it seems now that you are only considering one - the fetus. I'm not going to bother with comparing the embryos of mammals, etc. You probably know the science. Just keep in mind that a very large percentage of the human adult population do not see a human embryo before a certain point of development as being a "human". Just keep that in mind for a few minutes.
You're 15, so you probably have a vivid imagination. Imagine that you are a 15-year-old girl. Now imagine the most repulsive human male you can. I'm talking diseased, overweight putrid PIG of a psychopathic human being. Now imagine you get raped by that monstrosity in the most violent rape you can imagine that you just barely survive, scarred and disfigured. Now imagine not finding out you're pregnant until two months later.
Honestly, spend some time just imagining that situation, and trying your best to put yourself into those shoes. Now tell me if that was you, you wouldn't feel like you had a right to end that pregnancy, even though it posed no direct risk to your life. Tell me that if you tryto get that abortion, you should be sent to prison, because it is against the law.
Now, imagine that your family has been plagued by a terrible disease like Tay-Sachs. If your child gets the genetic roll of the dice, there is no hope. The child will get the disease, and you will have to watch them waste away over the course of a few years. There will be no quality of life, no hope, no happiness. Just misery. Imagine you are a pregnant woman who has just found out through a simple test that her baby with 100% certainty has this fate ahead. No possible hope. Only pain, for years until the guilty happiness you'll feel when death finally ends your child's suffering.
Now tell me if that was you, you wouldn't feel like the right thing to do would be to just spare everybody the misery, and end the pregnancy. It's a heartbreaking situation, and everybody will be sad, but honestly, if you chose to get an abortion in that situation, should you be sent to prison? Should the doctor who performed it, sparing your family that tragedy, lose his/her license and be jailed?
From there, it's just a bunch of levels of degree and gray areas to pretty much any other woman who has had to make that choice. Try to empathize with any of those women, and you'll probably have to start granting more and more exceptions to your "no abortions" rule. "Ok, incest too. Ok, certain genetic diseases too. Ok, extreme rape too..."
The only case that abortion is "ok" is when both the baby and mother will die in childbirth.
As you mature, if you honestly keep revisiting the question, I'll bet you have to add enough exceptions where you realize that everybody's life is different, and every woman deserves control over her own life. Government has no business being involved in making the decision. It's a decision that should be made by the mother, her doctor(s), her family.
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