Originally Posted by
Ryan DCNT
Abortion is the least impactful method of eugenics. If you're in favor of eugenics, there are far more effective methods.
The philosophical dilemma of abortion isn't whether a fetus is a life or not (it clearly is), but which takes precedence: the fetus as a life, or the fetus as part of a woman's body. Pro-lifers would say the former, and pro-choicers (if arguing in earnest) would say the latter. Stating that a fetus isn't a human life just makes you look retarded.
Pregnancies from rape and incest, and ectopic pregnancies, are so rare that they shouldn't even be part of the discussion. When people are talking about abortion, they are talking about terminating a pregnancy that resulted from a woman having voluntary intercourse with a man, without being on birth control, and without using prophylactics, with the common knowledge that this could lead to conception.
It's interesting that the pro-abortion stance is labelled as "pro-choice" but the "choice" doesn't include the woman's choice to engage in intercourse, nor the fetus' choice to not be terminated.
With that said, child sacrifice has been a mainstay of numerous judaic cultures, so why should modern America be any different?