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No, no, you're not. There is no child. You're getting rid of an embryo, and embryos have no rights.
by elros 10y ago
No, no, you're not. There is no child. You're getting rid of an embryo, and embryos have no rights.
- dogma1138 10y agoWell they do to some extent, ethic aren't that simple we as a society do criminalize feticide beyond the fact that a person (the pregnant woman) was assaulted, and in some jurisdiction feticide is or can be counted as homicide and murder. In many countries there are various laws governing fetal rights, and most people agree that at least at some point the fetus is considered a human being hence the commonality of "born alive" laws. This isn't an argument against the right to be able to have an abortion, but it is simply not true that embryos and fetuses have no rights either, fetal rights are a pretty big subject in ethics and morality and it is not an easy one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_rights