But that's not what we're arguing for, bright spark. I think everyone can agree that zygote is a bundle of cells but it is the basis of life. A natural cycle/miscarriage if a small cell is a little different than using utensils to literally crush a head the size of a plum and pulling out legs and arms.
As metal as that would be that's not even remotely how abortions are performed. Most embryos/fetuses don't even have arms or legs when they're aborted, or skulls the size of plums or whatever. Hell the whole fetus/embryo is maybe as big as a blueberry (or smaller) and you'd have to really dig through all the goop and blood to find it.
I know prolifers like to say all kinds of crazy shit about how 10 week old or younger fetuses are exactly the same as fully cooked babies only smaller, but it isn't true. And they're usually removed at home, by popping some pills that cause you to have what's more like a really heavy period than anything else (where again, you'd really have to dig and use a magnifying glass to find the embryo/fetus).
Even late term abortions, which again are rare and usually wanted pregnancies that went wrong, aren't performed that way. Iirc they give a fetus a shot to kill it, then induce labor. Most women afterwards want it intact to hold and grieve, because again these were almost certainly wanted pregnancies. I guess it might get dismembered if it's too FUBAR to remove naturally or it's already dead and rotting (removing a dead fetus is technically a form of abortion too), but that normally wouldn't be a thing because it probably wouldn't go over well with grieving mothers.
What's funny is a natural miscarriage early on is pretty much the exact same thing as a vast majority of abortions. Helll, the way the pills work is by more or less just inducing a miscarriage. So yeah, it really isn't any different than what naturally happens to a good chunk of fertilized eggs.
Come to Tard Baby, within the last month we've actually been having some good discussion on fetal development after we found some prolife propaganda site posting gross pics of dead fetuses and lying about how far along they were. Also the embryo coffin/cumjar site.
Damn prolifers posting about how they think abortions are done is like my edgyposting about how to kill babies because you couldn't abort them as fetuses.
Freya said:
I want to know why you would want an infant around a mentally ill person that has potentially violent tendencies
I don't. I would want her to stop being mentally ill and start having a healthy life.
That's uh, not how it works. I will be mentally ill til the day I die. The best I can do is keep up with treatment and make responsible choices. My life is actually probably the healthiest it's ever been, and not having any fucking kids is a huge part of why. Lots of people in group therapy aren't so lucky and on top of their existing mental illness/addiction they're also juggling kids and the knowledge of how they've fucked them up (and in many cases lost custody). Kids also force many people to stay in abusive relationships, in fact another common reason for abortion is leaving an abusive relationship.
I'm not actually exaggerating a whole lot with my edgyposting of what would happen if I was forced to have a kid. It would not be pretty and nothing good would happen for anyone (especially not the hypothetical kid).
Having kids doesn't magically transform a crazy person into a mentally stable person or a sociopath into someone capable of feeling guilt or remorse. Lots of times all it does is just give them one other thing making their illness worse or a new victim to abuse.