> Are you trying to say the law should prohibit helping people who handcuffed themselves and then lost the key? No, because metal handcuffs are not (and will n

> Are you trying to say the law should prohibit helping people who handcuffed themselves and then lost the key? No, because metal handcuffs are not (and will never be) people, so that's quite uncontroversial. A more instructive example would be a 7 year old child super-glueing their hands to the hands of their mother (as some kind of prank). I think we'd all agree that the law shouldn't permit anyone to "help" the mother by amputating the child's hands. > it lacks the property defining a person: brain activity. I'm not sure what counts as "brain activity" to you, but "Ultrasounds can reveal the embryo moving as early as 6 weeks after conception (or 8 pregnancy weeks), detecting the electrical impulses that govern movement and indicating that the brain is beginning to function."[0] > fundamentalist newspeak, invented to distort reality; kind of like “unborn child” The adjective "unborn" only became necessary because these were the specific subset of children whose right to life were being ignored. It's like how we didn't use the term "World War I" until there was a second one. If abortion were legal after the child is born but before they could feed themselves, we would need a name like "dependent child" to refer to them as a legal class of citizen. The very idea of bodily freedom implies the right to not be aborted. [0] https://flo.health/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/fetal-development/fetal-brain-development https://flo.health/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/fetal-developm...