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Forum Post: Do you support abortion or do you support the individual mandate?

Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 7, 2011, 11:33 a.m. EST by classicliberal (312)
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Proponents of abortion state that it is unfair to ask a woman to care for a child she is pregnant with. They say it is wrong and it amounts to slavery to make someone care for another person. Okay. But these same people tend to defend single-payer health care, which forces people to care for each other. If I say I have the right to die, and that my body is not for the government to decide what to do with, I am told that my body is collectively owned by society and the majority has the right to tell me what to do with it. What gives?

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[-] 2 points by FrogWithWings (1367) 12 years ago

It is not an issue of the Federal Government to decide. If you live in a state, which could feasibly not adhere to the Constitution, that disagrees with your personal beliefs of preference, you are free to move to a state, or anywhere, where there are like-minded and freedom loving persons.

[-] 1 points by GirlFriday (17435) 12 years ago

Who told you that you don't have the right to die?

[-] 1 points by threelittlebirds (2) from Sellersburg, IN 12 years ago

Why would it be slavery to take care of your own child?

[-] 1 points by classicliberal (312) 12 years ago

I didn't say it is. But I've heard proponents of abortion imply that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion#The_Violinist

[-] 1 points by threelittlebirds (2) from Sellersburg, IN 12 years ago

How are our bodies collectively owned by society?

[-] 1 points by classicliberal (312) 12 years ago

They aren't. But if I choose not to buy insurance, I don't have the right to receive healthcare at someone else's expense. Someone on this forum (not that everyone here agrees completely) told me "You do not have the right to die if you get sick. That is suicide and I believe it is illegal"

[-] 0 points by Perspective (-243) 12 years ago

I support neither. Abortion is just easier on the mind to say than murder. Just like pro-choice people call an unborn baby a fetus. It helps ease their conscious by dehumanizing the baby that is killed. Hitler did the same with the Jews.Creation of human life is the only true miracle humans can perform and snuffing that life out is evil at the very least.

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