Comments on: Can it be a child and a choice? http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/09/03/can-it-be-a-child-and-a-choice/ Sliding down the banisters of the ivory tower. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:37:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Shaina http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/09/03/can-it-be-a-child-and-a-choice/#comment-1162 Shaina Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:18:25 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=354#comment-1162 "If gestation happened in a box rather than a person, there would be no reason to pull the plug. Since it does happen in a person - and since that person risks everything from discomfort to inconvenience to death - it's not so black and white." Really? You honestly think that the only justified reasons to have an abortion are pregnancy related? It seems to me that the much larger concern for most women isn't the nine months of carrying the child but the 18 years/eternity of responsibility that comes after. There might be all sorts of reasons to choose not to bring a child into the world, via box or person. In the wikipedia page you link to actually, they mention that the researcher "aborted" the embryo she had implanted in the artificial uterus after 6 days of successful gestation. No woman's body was at stake, but I think most people (at least, most people who don't believe abortion is murder) would agree that this was clearly a sensible decision and even that doing otherwise would have been criminally irresponsible. “If gestation happened in a box rather than a person, there would be no reason to pull the plug. Since it does happen in a person - and since that person risks everything from discomfort to inconvenience to death - it’s not so black and white.”

Really? You honestly think that the only justified reasons to have an abortion are pregnancy related? It seems to me that the much larger concern for most women isn’t the nine months of carrying the child but the 18 years/eternity of responsibility that comes after. There might be all sorts of reasons to choose not to bring a child into the world, via box or person. In the wikipedia page you link to actually, they mention that the researcher “aborted” the embryo she had implanted in the artificial uterus after 6 days of successful gestation. No woman’s body was at stake, but I think most people (at least, most people who don’t believe abortion is murder) would agree that this was clearly a sensible decision and even that doing otherwise would have been criminally irresponsible.

]]> By: Nathan P. Origer http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/index.php/2008/09/03/can-it-be-a-child-and-a-choice/#comment-1112 Nathan P. Origer Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:14:29 +0000 http://www.nazg.com/iqrai/?p=354#comment-1112 "If you don’t think that abortion is murder — and, let’s face it, if you favor exemptions for rape and incest you really don’t" Thaaaaaaaaank you, Nicola! Thank you a hundred times over. “If you don’t think that abortion is murder — and, let’s face it, if you favor exemptions for rape and incest you really don’t”

Thaaaaaaaaank you, Nicola! Thank you a hundred times over.

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