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Uberhamster · 23 Oct 2003, 17:00

In college I did a lot of reading on the subject of abortion and discovered that there were no sweeping generalizations or easy answers. However, the only way that people can have any sort of control over their destinies and biology is for abortion to be kept safe and legal. In a perfect world abortion wouldn't be necessary, but that's not how the world is.

By the way, deciding that a feutus is a "person" is a rather arbitrary decision. For example: until the end of the 1800s abortion was permitted in the Catholic church. They had a concept called "ensoulment" which meant that before a certain time the fetus had no soul and could therefore be killed without it being a sin. I think this "ensoulment" occurred at the end of the first trimester, when the fetus started moving on its own.

23 Oct 2003, 17:00	#32
Uberhamster Sultan of Squeak Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Top of the world, ma! Posts: 11	Re: Abortions illegal in the USA? In college I did a lot of reading on the subject of abortion and discovered that there were no sweeping generalizations or easy answers. However, the only way that people can have any sort of control over their destinies and biology is for abortion to be kept safe and legal. In a perfect world abortion wouldn't be necessary, but that's not how the world is. By the way, deciding that a feutus is a "person" is a rather arbitrary decision. For example: until the end of the 1800s abortion was permitted in the Catholic church. They had a concept called "ensoulment" which meant that before a certain time the fetus had no soul and could therefore be killed without it being a sin. I think this "ensoulment" occurred at the end of the first trimester, when the fetus started moving on its own.