Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Wow. An update.

I know I havn't updated in awhile, but this is partially to blame on school, and partially to blame on my own lazy ass for cramming every test.

Anyways, we go back to an age old debate about...abortion. Quite frankly, I think this argument is pointless in terms of science, and all of that nice stuff. Conservatives state that it is life because it's growing, brain waves are detected in X amount of weeks. Liberals state that it's not alive, because it can't sustain life on it's own. This is pretty much all meaningless. For one to truely evaluate whether or not Abortion should be legal, one must look for the different arguments dealing with this sort of stuff. For the lack of better terms, in order to avoid a definition war on, "life," we respond to the contradictions in the opponent's idea. Due to the fact that I'm fairly liberal, I shall fight against the conservative side.

Putting all moralities aside, conservatives support the banning of abortion. However, in doing so (with their current argument), one must realize that you must also ban fertility clinics for those who are unable to have kids. Many republicans state that as soon as a sprm unites with an egg, it is now, life in their definition. However, for a fertility clinic to work, multiple eggs are injected into a women's uterus due to the fact that many of them have a high chance of death. It's technically killing embryo's isn't it?

This same argument can go with stem cell research. While it may be, "killing," embryos, you still cannot ignore the fact that fertility clinics still do the same thing. If you lose one, you lose the other.

3 comments:

Mango said...

Just a thought on how we should handle this.

America claims to be free. So we should have the freedom to choose and make the judgement ourselves, because ultimately, we will be accountable or it will not matter.

Oppressive countries, on the other hand, since, they are oppressive, have the burden of making sure their citizens do the right stuff. Therefore, those governments do have to deal with the problem.

But we don't. We're america. Fuck yeah.

Roger Yang said...

This post wasn't there to actually show that my side is right. It was more or less to show a flaw in the Conservative argument.

If you use, "ZOMG IT'S KILLING BABIES," then a fertility clinic has to go too.

Roger Yang said...

It just means that if you take away one, you take away something that many conservatives may see as just.