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Abortion

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NOTE: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 19million unsafe abortions (a.k.a. 'back alley abortions' - which categorizes anyone who is not practiced under the standards of general sanitation and professionalism, lacking necessary skills etc) that occur around the world every year and 68,000 of these result in the women's death (that's not counting those who hemorrhage, damage internal organs, are rendered unable to conceive, are infected and so on). An average of 41% occur within the United States.

To those of you who want nothing more than to spend hours on DeviantArt arguing that abortion is wrong and immoral: I bet you one unplanned pregnancy that you're secretly Pro-Choice.

Thank you,

Alice
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EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
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KODAK EASYSHARE C643 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Shutter Speed
1/28 second
Aperture
F/2.7
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
160
Date Taken
Jul 13, 2006, 12:58:51 PM
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RogueStarDemon's avatar

Can I ask you something? No Pro-Life advocate has ever been able to give me an honest from-the-heart straight answer to this question before, and no religious person has been able to give me a solid outcome without deliberately manipulating/twisting this hypothetical scenario in a way that greatly favours their moral comfort zone.


I want you to imagine yourself in a morality scenario, with only two possible outcomes--

The scenario is that you're by yourself in a large (but mostly empty) fertility clinic, waiting for a friend's appointment to finish.

You begin to smell a faint burning scent in the air, and a minute later, an emergency fire evacuation alarm starts loudly beeping. The few nurses and doctors in the clinic quickly evacuate, leaving the entire wing empty.

As you get up and wander down the unfamiliar corridors of the clinic to search for the emergency exit, you faintly hear a frightened, lost, 6-year-old boy who is trapped in a burning hot dark smoke-filled room behind a malfunctioned heavy fire-proof door. Through the small window, you see the young boy is on the ground in the corner of the room, helplessly choking and crying from smoke inhalation, unable to see or stand up.

You use your strength to push open the stuck door, and hot fumes of plastic and scorched metal fills your lungs.

As you carefully go over to the child whilst trying to cover your nose and mouth, you notice the young boy is next to a fully-stocked container unit labelled "500 Viable Fertilised Human Embryos". The embryo container unit's digital display is showing a warning that the refrigeration temperature almost critical, meaning that every embryo inside will expire if it stays inside the burning hot room any longer. The unit is quite heavy, but you could carry it out of the burning clinic if you used all your strength, however, the young boy would certainly die from toxic smoke inhalation before you find your way back into the room to save them.

Your eyes burn and you start to choke as you contemplate a decision to grab one or the other, before time runs out and you too will die from the eventually collapsing burning ceiling....


In the scenario, do you either;

[A] Decide to carry the young child under your arm and evacuate them to cold fresh air outside of the burning clinic, leaving the 500 fertilised embryos to all expire in the burning room?

Or ;

[B] Decide to carry the embryo refrigeration unit out of the building to safety, leaving the 6-year-old child to succumb to the overpowering heat and toxic smoke?


Who's existence and and intrinsic life value is more objectively worthy to you? A very self-aware young child who would die in a harsh and frightening painful end, or 500 barely-developed embryos which would feel nothing, think nothing, know nothing as they expired?