Kennan posed an interesting question.
If there were Conjoined (i.e. "Siamese") Twins, and one got annoyed, bored, felt threatened by, etc. the other, would it be ethical for the stronger twin, if the possibility of being safely separated in nine months existed, to kill the other?
I'm not saying it's that simple, nor do I advocate the mindless and shameless hate of those who are pro-choice, but looking at the abortion issue in that context does put an interesting spin on things.
Some folks might put an emphasis on the word "spin." I don't deny that there's a powerful political machine backing the pro-life agenda. There's also a powerful political machine backing the pro-choice agenda.
And the point is, that in the meantime, scared young girls, jaded older women, terminally ill mothers and innocent babies all get caught up in the cogs of those machines, and spat out like so much refuse. There isn't an easy answer. I dare anyone who is pro-life to tell a 14 year-old who's made a mistake, or a woman who's been raped, that it's a simple matter. And I dare anyone who is pro-choice to tell a mother (or a father, for that matter) who's lost a child to abortion (or miscarriage) that it was just a fetus, or to look at a 3D sonogram, and say it's just a matter of choice.
I guess the problem is that those dares are all-too-often taken, when we care more about a political agenda than about a person. When we care more about power and votes and religion, than about life.
So how do I/how will I vote on matters of abortion? While it's perhaps none of your business how I vote, I guess it's very much others' business what I think. Is that an answer? Not really. But as I've stated, there is no simple answer...
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It's a hard knock life for us
Steada treated we get tricked
Steada Free says we get kicked
Its a hard knock life
I am not sure that those lyrics make very much sense but I only know the Dr. Evil version.
Anyway, don't forget about the mother who is having complications that put her life at risk and could possibly leave previous children motherless. Talk about tough choices. If saving one life means another is most likely going to be lost, which one should you save? What if the child doesn't really have a whole life in front of him but might die of complications just a bit later, then what?
I'm not sure exactly what you're initial test question is saying? Are your twins born, sentient and somewhat grown?
I think it works better if you say one twin is severely retarded but the other is a grown adult lugging round a wholly separate, but definitely adult and alive person with no real self-awareness. That would seem to ask more pertinently when a life is a life?
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