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ORIGINAL: Level There's no excuse for putting a baby in a dumpster. But I'm sure you realize that.  Hah, yeah. I'm sorry for the slow bit. I'll not continue it. I hoped to ask about it. At, what point would it be something you wanted to get authorities involved? Such as, late-term abortions. Those where the baby really could've been born, it just happens to be killed (deliberately) while the woman's in labor? Or, the baby that's ready to be born, the woman's body just is slow to enter labor? Or the baby that's a week younger than that one? I agree with you.. I hate the idea of the state being involved so; I'm quite distrusting of it, particularly when it would limit choices. But, just.. I know I'd not blink to see the state arrest those who threw a little baby into the dumpster, and I'm not seeing an immediate difference between that and the late-term abortions outside of where the baby happens to be nestled at- in a womb of flesh or cloth, a crib. Before that.. well, before that, I know I can make the argument for younger pre-born's.. but I'm having such a hard time getting even the late-term baby's right to life across on this thread. Not because of you, just.. so many people want their "rights" at the expense of a child's life. =/ Some -- what percentage, I don't know -- genuinely believe that from conception to whatever cutoff point they have, that is permissible for abortions to happen in their mind, that it is not a child, not a human life. At what point does that change, for each person? The difference in answers is vast, for sure. This makes bringing the authorities in problematic. However, once you get to a certain stage, the latter stages, of pregnancy, the consensus grows stronger that this is indeed a human life. If I understand correctly, the vast majority of pro-choice people, at these stages, only feel abortion is okay to save the mother's life (I agree), or her "health" (which I tend to disagree with, just depends). So, the question becomes, why was this late-stage abortion done? I'm am guessing that I would rarely want any abortion to end in punishment, CL. If they're saving the mother's life, so be it. If they're doing it for health reasons...... I'm conflicted. Don't I care about a person's health? Yes. But I also see two people's health at stake..... and one will lose their life. The child. Let's say, yes, bring in the police in late term abortions done for those health reasons. The mother and health-care provider only have to state they did it for the mother's life, and that ends it, doesn't it? Even if there is a way to know whether it was done for "only" health issues, I still have difficulty wanting them punished. I tend to think there are very, very few women that believe that they are aborting a human being, and do so "just because". And yes, I think those very, very few are to be despised, or pitied. The rest, while I believe very differently than they do, have an honest difference of opinion than I.
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