Goat wrote:
WELL. First of all it's not a woman's body that's being debated here, it's a child's. Fridge and I assume you were quite happy for the choice to be made for her by her family to keep the baby, so why is it so shocking that the decision isn't in her hands re abortion? I know full well that abortion is taking a baby and sucking its skull out, and ditto blah blah pro-choice yes yes yes, but if the choice isn't in her hands anyways what relevance does that have?
It's not a woman's body that's being debated?
There's a huge difference between a family contributing to a decision (on what basis do you claim that she had no say in the matter?) and the government imposing one upon a person, that really shouldn't need explaining.
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What you miss is that often women, even in countries where the choice exists, are pressured into keeping a baby that they don't want, whether by religion, peer pressure, dumb films like Juno and Knocked Up or overbearing parents wanting to sell stories to the gutter press. Why is this particular child being born? Because its parents, whoever they may be, were not educated enough to know about sex, and the girl's guardians decided that the possible £500000 that little Alfie may be receiving as payment for the shit-stirring documentary mentioned in that Guardian link I posted is worth the girl's life being ruined. She'll have no-one's respect, ever.
What an utterly weird set of assumptions and predictions. Of what relevance is religion and peer pressure to this episode? Both of those are wrong because they force someone to do things they don't want to do, which is EXACTLY what you yourself are attempting. In fact, you could pretty much be Ayatollah Goat right now.
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I mean, come on. Is she going to have the child, go to university and become a great leader? Is she fuck. She'll be pregnant again before she's 18 and will turn into yet another desperate celebrity-wannabe whoring herself literally and figuratively for attention. This child will be a burden on society, and making out that 'ooh, it might not' in some misty-eyed anyone-can-make-it nonsensical argument is ridiculous.
Rah rah more "I'm better than them" bollocks. Maybe you could give up being a lawyer and try doing something useful as well, eh?
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As for the last bit, yikes. My disgust is more over the situation and the mother's age rather than the boy's cocksmanship. Let's turn it around: you are so hellbent on the protection of 'rights' that you would put a child through the whole painful and traumatic childbirth cycle rather than a relatively painless abortion, assuming of course it's early, just because the government has no rights at all over its citizens? Again, why should the under-16s have rights to have children?
Good god man get a hold of yourself. I am saying she should be allowed to choose whether she has it or not, how could you infer otherwise?. Sorry but I am beginning to question the grip you have on your own sanity, let alone the argument you are trying to make.
By the way, I don't actually believe you about this:
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My disgust is more over the situation and the mother's age rather than the boy's cocksmanship