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I understand you are pro choice. I was more pointing out the hypocrisy of the fact they would allow an abortion under those circumstances. If they tru...
September 26, 2024 at 21:22
This is a long message, if there is any punctuation or spelling issues I apologies I think it is acceptable to kill a foetus that is unconscious becau...
September 26, 2024 at 18:51
The question was towards the quote below. In which case it does have. You are right in saying that a person like you described would have an issue wit...
September 26, 2024 at 16:41
I would answer this question with a question. Why do we value human life over every other life?
September 26, 2024 at 16:18
I would say to that, your conscious, the foetus isn’t. So in some way you can’t use human rights in the argument because an abortion would be the same...
September 26, 2024 at 16:13
In my opinion that’s a weak counter because I can flip the same question and say, is it moral to take away the choice?
September 26, 2024 at 16:05
Around 60% of the world’s population has the right to an abortion. And in the interest of freedom and not allowing a government to have control on wha...
September 26, 2024 at 15:57
Ok understandable. In which case it would have to be discussed on what do we class as a life. Consciousness is believed to start developing around 24-...
September 26, 2024 at 15:36
You are right in saying free will is not necessary for these categories to function. however, if you were to say, murder someone and free will doesn't...
September 23, 2024 at 10:39
I believe we have free will when it comes to our decisions, and if you don't you are opening up to arguing that if people do not have free will, then ...
September 20, 2024 at 08:20