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How are they harmful?
by dev_north_east 8y ago
How are they harmful?
- dempseye 8y agoIf someone thinks that women ought to be able to exercise control over their reproduction, and that abortion is a legitimate means of exercising that control that accrues benefits to individuals and societies by being legal, then the belief that human life begins at conception, being a traditional argument against the moral permissibility of abortion, could seem harmful. The same applies to stem cell research.
- crankylinuxuser 8y ago>> and the grounds for believing that human life begins at conception. > How are they harmful? Because it doesn't stop there. It starts by banning abortion or restricting to some line (heartbeat, 4 weeks, etc..). Doing abortion then turns into murder, and is charged by the state as such. As the radicals (this belief is primarily christian) get more entrenched, then this window slides further into conception=life Then miscarriages and 'intentional miscarriages' itself becomes a crime of murder. This has already happened in Virginia, Tennessee, and other locations around thw rodl: https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44552/when-a-miscarriage-becomes-a-crime/ https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44552/when-a-m... Having this belief takes away women's agency of their own bodies. It turns them into second class citizens by making their body worth less than the similar male, solely that they can have a baby.