The 8th amendment(Mod warning in op)

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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So is it OK in your eyes to kill a baby 2 days before the women goes into full-term labor? Birth is just some arbitrary reference point. You know full well it's a human being at that stage. If that were the case, babies born prematurely at 8 months are not human and should be put in the zoo or something, according to your logic.

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we are well past that stage

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Because Fred Swanson just said we should only care about humans from when they are born onwards. It's just a few posts up.

WhiteRoses wrote: »

He said nothing about aborting them at that gestation though?

In response to my post:
At what point do we 'care' about humans then?

He said:
When it is born!

Implying we should not care about humans before they are born. 2 days before birth means you have not been born yet.

Percy Judd wrote: »

I grew up in England and have seen the change in attitude between here and there that having abortion freely available causes.
It will happen slowly in Ireland too when the 8th is repealed.
First it will be used by those who fall into the 0.1% - 1% of statistics where proper use of contraception has failed.
As the number of abortions grows, after a few years everyone will know someone who had an abortion and it becomes more normal and accepted. The next generation of children will grow up knowing no different.
Then eventually we will become like England, where contraception is not given as much consideration and women don't worry about becoming pregnant as much knowing they can just abort if they don't want to keep the baby.

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Then eventually we will become like England,.

Percy Judd wrote: »

I grew up in England

Now you are here, you want it all to be leprechauns and maidens dancing at crossroads ?


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Percy Judd wrote: »

To me that's a tiny human being and most certainly a person.

Then tell us why. The crux of an argument about abortion always revolves around this and it's rarely explained.

To me what makes a person, a human being is their mind. You can move and replace any organ and it's the same person, it's their mind that makes them human. Until that exists there's no human being present. There's no actual person there.

Conversely if a person is in an accident and is brain dead, but the rest of their body is alive, we consider them to be dead. It's the mind, not the body that makes a person.

Percy Judd wrote: »

At what point do we 'care' about humans then?
What stage of mental or cognitive development?
What stage of physical development?

At exactly the same point we do for all other humans, when it's capable of surviving without it's own personal human life support machine.

Just because you can't live without my kidney doesn't entitle you or the government to force me to donate it to you.

Just because a fetus can't live outside my womb doesn't entitle the fetus or the government to force to continue to allow it to reside there.

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If you want a load of pro-choice people posting and slapping each other on the back about how 'right on' they are for their pro-abortion views then why not just ban anyone with a pro-life opinion from the website?
I could equally refer to pro-abortion posters as 'tedious' but would prefer not to stoop to such lows.

Percy Judd wrote: »

I think I have caught you lot out on this point.

Yeah, well done newly registered poster of 34 posts. You've managed to catch us all out, even those of us who have been discussing this matter long before you rocked up and have responded to questions like these before.

You totally win the Internet today dude. :rolleyes:

Percy Judd wrote: »

I think I have caught you lot out on this point.
I have posted what stage of development a 12-week fetus is at regarding heartbeat, responding to stimulus, hands, feet, arms, legs, brain synapses, etc.
And yet you can't be straight and say you don't consider that a human life.
BUT you can't tell me at what stage of development the pregnancy becomes a human life.

I'll bite.
A 12 week old fetus is most definitely biologically human. However, at that gestation, it doesn't really have any human attributes. It cannot survive on its own outside the womb. It depends on its host wholly to survive and thrive.

Sentience is developed by the fetus some time between week 18 and 22.
It is at that point that I see it as a separate human being and deserving of its own human rights.
Up until that point, the woman's needs and wants and rights outweigh that of the unborn.

The woman carrying the child is more important than the perspective person a fetus will become after 40 weeks gestation. She is living, breathing, and here. So her rights win.

And also, you haven't "caught out" or proven anything - people are slow to respond because you're about the 30th pro-lifer to offer up this nugget of genius only for them to end up completely wrong on the matter.

markodaly wrote: »

You are falling into your own trap of conformation bias. Just because you had an experience does not mean that it as true for all Irish emigrants of the 1980's.

According to CSO figures 206,000 people left Ireland during the 80's. The vast vast majority of these for economic reasons.

Again, I said social reasons may have contributed but to argue that the majority of emigration was caused by social issues flies in the face of established facts.

Given that I very clearly wrote about my personal experience not the wider Irish experience, never once said it was the majority of Irish people but it was the majority of the Irish people I knew, specifically clarified that it was the Gaymen, Lesbians, and Lefties - how about you pull your horns in, accept that I know among whom I lived and worked, and move on?