Okay, I would love to have a genuine conversation with someone who is pro-choice because I am so conflicted and have been wrestling with my thoughts for days. Please, if you could message me respectfully, I would be ever so grateful.
I agree with most pro-life points, all but one, actually. I can’t get over that <i>wasted potential</i> in those cells that are aborted every single day. And I <i>get</i> that those fetuses aren’t people yet and usually don’t have a heartbeat yet. Yet.
It just makes me distraught to think that the cure for cancer might be caught in the mind of a person that was aborted because their mother wasn’t ready for a baby.
And I perfectly understand that it’s the woman’s body and I am in no place to judge them. And I don’t.
But even in the horrible, heartbreaking, and unacceptable occurrence of rape, I still don’t see how that cluster of cells that will be a person shouldn’t have the chance to live and love and be their own person.
I know this is idealist. I know that moms who go in for abortions believe they can’t handle it or aren’t ready and there’s not room for adoption and that the earth is overpopulating.
But can someone help explain this to me to hopefully clear my thoughts? How terminating so much potential is okay?Here’s the way I look at it.
It’s true that that fetus could have really grown up to cure cancer, or do something else that’s also amazing. But there is also great potential for that fetus to do great harm. And actually, given that nobody has yet cured cancer and hundreds of thousands of people have murdered, robbed, and plundered in human history, it’s more likely that the fetus will fall into the latter category than the former.
You never know what that fetus would have become, and I think many people who ultimately choose abortion do consider that. But at the end of the day, it is their decision. But hey– if you ever get pregnant and think that your baby will do great things, then parenthood could very well be the best decision. It’s different for everyone, but you know better than I do about what’s best for you. 🙂 ~Bev
I agree with Bev, basically they could also grow up to commit genocide, invent a war machine that kills millions, be a serial killer. Potential means the potential for anything, not just good, and like every time I get my period that’s an egg that doesn’t get a chance to live, maybe that egg is the one that would have, if combine with my husband’s sperm cured cancer… we can’t always chase every avenue of potential
I’ve known & worked with scientists; I was a science major in my first crack at college, and I feel like, given what I know about how science is actually done, the “what if they could have grown up to xyz” argument doesn’t ring with me at all (or, for that matter, the “what if they could have grown up to do evil” argument). Scientific progress, even breakthroughs, is more about the large numbers of people chipping away at problems and mass conditions than it is about an individual genius.
It’s a liberal individualist myth that someone simply “has” a scientific breakthrough locked in his (gender choice intentional) head until he can get it free and enlighten us with it. This is pretty much true of any inventions (what gets invented depends a lot more on what there’s money in or need for than on the individual proclivities of any person)
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Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 