Friday, November 23, 2007

Abortion Controversy

http://www.abortioninfo.org/

This is a very interesting site becuase it shows the issue from both sides. It seems to be pretty clear that the writer's personal belief is abortion is wrong becuase she tends to show a bias towards the anti-abortion arguments, but the other side is presented and awknowledged; coming from a non-religious perspective it is sort of irritating to me that the anti-abortion viewpoints' main defense is "God." I am not religious, and although I do not think that abortion should be made illegal I personally would never get one; in defense to most of the questions she asks from the pro-abortion stance I would have answered with presenting alternatives such as adoption- which I think is underrated, becuase in order to adopt a family must be completely qualified and is truly in want of a child. Also, how about presenting abortion as a weak and pathetic way to deal with the choices you made? The one thing this site does say that I found interesting is that if abortion is not murder, then what is it? These are the sort of things that I think the issue should be presented as; not everything moral has to be linked to religion and the pro-life side should think of alternative ways to defend their position rather than simply pointing to God. If you choose to have sex then you have to be prepared for the consequences, period. It is not all fun and games. That is really what the issue should be.

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