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Re: US appeals court upholds new Texas abortion rules |
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Posted by Nilet on Fri Apr 4 18:18:29 2014, in response to Re: US appeals court upholds new Texas abortion rules, posted by New Flyer #857 on Fri Apr 4 15:01:18 2014. Your claim that you can refuse your body makes some sense, but this is not a mere refusal we're talking about, but an offensive action against another.Read the damn link I posted. In Thomson's example, someone else's circulatory system has been connected to yours in order to use your kidneys as a dialysis machine. Ripping out the tubes is just as much an "offensive action" as aborting an unwanted pregnancy, but you wouldn't doubt for a second that you have a right to do just that. If you like, you can call it self defense. And, yes, biologically we're talking about a human person. No, we're not. We're talking about a fetus or an embryo. You don't seriously believe that this is a human, do you?  Come on. To think of the fetus as parasitic is merely an excuse and is a weak one scientifically. The mother's body is very blah blah blah blah blah The fetus consumes the woman's body for its own benefit, causing significant harm to the woman's health while offering no benefit in return. If a woman decides it's worth putting up with that in order to have a baby, that's her choice. If she decides not to, that's also her choice. Hers. Not yours, not the government's, not society's not anybody else's. That's because the right to bodily autonomy is absolute— if something or someone is consuming your body, you have every right to stop them. |
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