When it comes to "endangering the mother's life", it basically comes to this: There are two human beings in critical danger, and only one of them can be saved. Saving the mother instead of the embryo is the "safe" choice because the mother is more likely to live a fulfilling life afterwards, whereas the embryo is very likely to die itself. Now, suppose instead that we were talking about a healthy adult woman and a sickly two-year-old child.... would you be so comfortable killing the child to save the woman? If the choice were not yours, but the woman's, what do you think she should do?
In the case of rape ... well, that's a tough one that I'm still working out for myself. I'm actually not 100% certain that abortion should be an option even there.
And as for situations where alternate methods of birth-control simply and inexplicably fail ... well ... shit happens. And I actually wonder if, in such a case, it should not be taken as an indication that the child was *meant* to be.
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When it comes to "endangering the mother's life", it basically comes to this: There are two human beings in critical danger, and only one of them can be saved. Saving the mother instead of the embryo is the "safe" choice because the mother is more likely to live a fulfilling life afterwards, whereas the embryo is very likely to die itself. Now, suppose instead that we were talking about a healthy adult woman and a sickly two-year-old child.... would you be so comfortable killing the child to save the woman? If the choice were not yours, but the woman's, what do you think she should do?
In the case of rape ... well, that's a tough one that I'm still working out for myself. I'm actually not 100% certain that abortion should be an option even there.
And as for situations where alternate methods of birth-control simply and inexplicably fail ... well ... shit happens. And I actually wonder if, in such a case, it should not be taken as an indication that the child was *meant* to be.