If your a vegetarian or vegan because of your love for animals, then why is it OK to have an abortion?!
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There are a couple of odd assumptions in your question that need to be addressed.
The first is your apparent assumption that all veg*ns are enthusiastically pro-choice.
In fact veg*ns are as diverse in their opinions, politics, beliefs and behaviours as any other group - meat-eaters for example, or people who enjoy singing.
So you will find the same wide range of opinions among veg*ns on the issue of abortion as on any other issue.
Second odd assumption: that someone who loves animals enough to decide to be veg*n should logically be anti choice, and oppose all abortions.
The logical conclusion of suggesting all veg*ns ought to be anti-choice is that all meat-eaters should be/are pro-choice, no?
I can only speak for myself, not for any other veg*ns.
I'm vegan and I'm 100% pro-choice, whatever the circumstances of conception.
I'm pro-choice because I value life - the lives of the thousands of women who would die without legal abortion, and the lives of the countless numbers of women who die when they can't obtain abortions.
In countries where abortion is illegal, women have abortions anyway - dangerous, life threatening and sometimes fatal abortions. This used to happen in countries where abortion is legal, and still does where it is legal but in reality hard to get.
For me it's a class issue too. It is women without the money to buy safe abortions - something wealthy women have always been able to do, legal abortion or no - who died and continue to die. I care about their lives so I'm pro-choice.
I'm old enough to remember the time before abortion was legal in my country - I don't know if you are, but I somehow doubt it. . I remember the whispers about a friend's teenage cousin who died following a botched illegal abortion, and friends injuring themselves in scalding hot baths because they feared they were pregnant - hot baths were believed to bring on miscarriage.
Stories of knitting needles, coat hangers, and other implements being used by desperate women to self-abort are not just horror stories, they are true
I am strongly in favour of women being in control of their own lives and destinies, and part of this is control over their own fertility. Yes, prevention is better, and education about safe and effective contraception would prevent the need for some abortions. But with the best will in the world contraception sometimes fails. It is ludicrous to talk, as some people do, of women using abortion as contraception - abortion is a hideous experience.
I'm vegan because I choose to minimise my contribution to animal suffering. I'm pro-choice because I value the lives of women and their right to choose. I don't think the two have anything to do with each other - except that both positions demonstrate compassion, in my view.
Because a foetus is not yet a significant, independent life form, and it is still part of the mother's body meaning it is a woman's right to remove it. If you want to eat a foetus, go ahead, but from a veg*n perspective it is wrong to eat meat that has not been born because that would involve forcing an abortion on an animal, which would be inhumane.
This is an inane question, by the way.
Just as different people have a variety of reasons for choosing to not eat meat and/or dairy products, people have different reasons for having abortions or supporting the ability of others to have them. Trying to tie up ALL those reasons into one tidy equation as your question attempts through generalization is not realistic. You might rephrase your question in many ways, such as:
"How might a pro-choice vegan reconcile their views on late-term abortions, when there is no risk to the mother, with their views on not eating anything that has a face?" Would this question get you closer to the answer you're hoping to elicit? Maybe, maybe not.
To illustrate my point further, let's flip your question around: "If you're a meat-eater because you believe that animals are on the earth to be killed to feed humans, then why is it NOT OK to kill humans?" Would you expect anyone to give you a neat answer to this?
I am confused...
Being vegan or vegetarian has NOTHING to do with abortion.
People who eat meat get abortions too.
Are you just looking for an excuse to keep eating your cruel but 'yummy' KFC without people making you feel bad? Aw, didums.
You see, I have no problems whatsoever with people who eat meat, my whole family eat meat, most of my friends do too.
My problem starts when people like YOU get on my case, to justify your own wrong actions.
Peace. =)
Haters gonna hate, as my friend would say.
There is an enormous difference between removing a clump of parasitic cells from your body and not eating animals that are treated badly and then brutally killed.
Really, your question is like asking why wearing shoes is okay when there is a robot on Mars. It makes no sense.
It is NOT RIGHT to have an abortion. It is a mortal sin. It is not to be taken lightly at all. It is very serious. And there are consequences! It is NEVER to be made fun of! Abortion is a Mortal Sin! God sees everything people do, think, and feel! People should be careful what they say!
They can justify anything as long as it benefits them. Them killing a child is ok, but if I eat a hot-dog I'm a murderer.
Ashley really? (making a decision that affects only you) how about the dead child? I think it also affects him/her.
Don't understand what make you assumed that vegan / vegetarian think that abortion is right under all situations, circumstances and its not brutal?!
Its funny how some justify abortion by calling an unborn baby a "parasite" ... seriously WTH?
who knows...
I say go for it!
Because it's MY body and I have the right to choose what I do with it! Plain and simple.
Getting an abortion performed on your own body, making a decision that affects only you, is very different from torturing and eating animals who have no choice. Abortions do not hurt the fetus, it doesn't even know what's going on. The animal locked in the cage knows what is happening sucks and it can't get away. Abortion is a personal choice, just as eating or not eating meat is a personal choice. I believe in the right to make decisions on your own without a religious nut job making it for you. Call me crazy, but I believe I know more about what's better for me than a **** republican does.
Abortions should only performed if the child was a product of rape, and the mother wishes it so.
Personally I'm pretty sure humans control each other enough as it is. They should just plain and simply force people to take it out with a fork or something, by themselves, if they feel like murdering something that wasn't a product of rape inside their vaginae.
Gynecologists or whatever should be OUTLAWED from performing abortion on women who weren't raped.
My penis. Not even joking, MY penis.
1. There are plenty of meat-eaters who have abortions.
2. I care more about the life that is already here than the potential life. How can you "eat meat that has not been born yet"? That makes no sense.
3. Nobody has any right to judge a woman's decision to have an abortion because you don't know her circumstances.
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Free willy and abort sally. Doesn't really compute, does it? This is one criticism of groups like PETA who put the lives of animals above human life at times. It lends credence to the "liberalism is a mental disorder" claims.
Hot dogs...you're making me hungry ! ((deerhunter))
Its simple, people who are vegans rs vegetarians don't get enough protien in their diet to sustain a pregnancy.
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