I have never encountered someone with such a lack of rigor in their thought processes. Reading your response is just ... bizarre. How about the very first sentence you wrote on the topic? Seriously, you need to do some research before you form an opinion on abortions. Or do as I have, and be with a woman as she makes the decision, go with her to the clinic, and hold her hand as she goes through the process. There is no part of that process that is easy. There is no time where the potential infant is not in the room, a part of the decision. Having an abortion is not like ordering a McChicken at the drive through. And punishing anyone for having or giving an agreed-upon medical procedure, is unwarranted in every case, regardless of your morals. It is a medical decision, and you do not get to be in the room while the patient and doctor make the decision of the appropriate course of action. For any procedure. Ever. I just said there isn't such a punishment that is appropriate. Where did you read me as making such an argument?
You punish the doctors ...
I think I should clarify myself a bit more here, because I thought about where things may be going wrong. Firstly, when I talk about my judgement of how society makes it's decisions I do not refer to the decisions individuals make. For example, I have stated that the decision to abort a baby is an immoral and calculated one. I do not think this is true on the individual's level. Instead, it is the society, the larger social result of all people talking to one another, that is cold and calculating. If you support abortion because you saw the behaviors on an individual level, then I don't consider you to be making a cold, calculated, or bad decision to support abortion. What I think is that society trending towards the support and legalization of abortion is only doing so because of factors in recent changes, and it is the larger picture, the behaviors of people on a large scale, that allows abortion because of all the benefits it has now compared to how it used to. ___ Secondly, I was arguing for the idea that my moral viewpoint when I so strongly was pushing the idea of babies being people and abortion being the killing of them. This wasn't me stating, at all, that I believe abortion was a bad thing. Instead, that was me trying to express my viewpoint and reasons that I have changed my views on morality and the nature of how we should think about the world. It was stupid to include that in this whole post, and it really wasn't appropriate, sorry about that. ___ And, finally, when I talk about abortion I am referring to it from a very clinical modeled distant perspective. Those variables you talk about how "abortion is not like getting a sandwich" are things I am well aware of, but I wasn't considering those "up close" and personal situations when I was/am talking about decisions we make as a society. I have no need or desire to consider those situations, because I feel that I can't say anything about them. I am not speaking from the scope of any individual's life, but the scope of broad human behavior.