Monday, March 18, 2013

Students debate abortion at GVSU

Grand Valley State University's Langhorn features an article on a formal debate at GVSU between prolife students from GVSU and students in favor of legal abortion from Michigan State University. 

Wright said the smaller size of an unborn baby doesn't decrease the value of him or her and that the level of development of an unborn baby doesn't decrease their value either.

"An 18-year-old has a more developed brain, reproductive system, and life experiences, but this doesn't necessarily mean that an unborn baby has less value," Wright said. "For degree of dependency, all of us depend on each other in equal amounts, with an unborn child it's just higher because their younger, which again doesn't decrease its value."

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"Is it an adequate reason to kill an unborn person because of a lack of human desires and functions?" McVeigh said. "All humans have one thing in common and that's human nature. A humanitarian society should be a fair, equal and loving society that doesn't seek out boundaries that places some humans a head of others; we tear these wall downs."

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