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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Up to 75% of all conceptions never make it to term for one reason or another (much of them never even implanting in the uterus). Human reproduction is one of the least efficient modes of procreation in the animal/plant kingdom.  If there is a god who sends a soul into every embryo at the moment of conception, he/she is the biggest abortionist of them all.[/quote]

This is a ludicrous rationale - and I say this as someone who is pro-choice. There is a difference between a miscarriage that results for natural reasons and one an abortion which is the result of external intervention.[/quote]

What is the difference?  That one is caused by man (or woman) and one is caused by God?

For many of us it is insignificant, irrelevant or incorrect to say abortion and miscarriage are different.

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In both instances the life of a fetus is terminated. But to equate the body rejecting a fetus for whatever reason with someone surgically ending the life of a fetus [b]seems incongruous[/b].

Not the best analogy but a person who is terminally ill dying of natural causes cannot be equated with same individual whose life is terminated by a physician or a relative or even by the individual's own action.

We can disagree in both instances whether the affected individual has that right but there is a difference between something happening naturally and through external intervention.[/quote]

Seems incongruous to whom?  Perhaps to you, but not to me.  In both instances the life of the fetus ends.  I don't see much difference.  Why does it matter that one happens "naturally" and one happens by design?  Do you view the "natural" happening as somehow more moral or righteous?

I also think your analogy is inapt.  I don't really see a big moral difference between a terminally ill person who dies of natural causes and a one who decides to take their own life, whether by their own hand or by directing another to do so.  I don't view one of those situations as morally ok and the other as morally wrong.

To me they both are moral choices, and I would never dream of making or legislating either choice for another human being.

From a public policy perspective, I might enact laws that would ensure that terminally ill persons who choose to die were mentally competent to do so (i.e. not depressed or improperly informed about their choices) and that the terminally ill person was making the choice freely.  I might seek to use public funds to ensure that some of the factors that drive the terminally ill to commit suicide were removed from the decision equation (like ensuring access to adequate pain medication at end of life or ensuring that assets could be preserved or providing access to healthcare, etc.).  I might also seek to ensure that any health professionals who assisted in the process were removed from conflicts of interest that might influence the terminally ill person's choice.

Just because something happens "naturally" doesn't mean that it is necessarily morally right. [/quote]

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