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A person that firmly believes that personhood starts at conception, would not want a rape exception for abortion. Carrying an unwanted child to term is the far
by randyrand 4y ago
A person that firmly believes that personhood starts at conception, would not want a rape exception for abortion. Carrying an unwanted child to term is the far lesser evil of murder. There’s no ambiguity there.
That said, my position is more nuanced. Personhood starts handful of months after conception as far as I’m concerned.
- ModernMech 4y agoCarrying an unwanted child to term sounds a lot like slavery, which sounds like the opposite of personhood. But I guess you’ve built a straw man you don’t believe in so it doesn’t make sense for me to push too much against that. I guess what I would say in general is that we’re talking a lot about when personhood begins, but I don’t think we’re talking enough about when personhood ends. To me, personhood ends when the government forces you to do something with your body that you don’t want to do. In that moment you are not a person but in fact owned by the government.
- usrn 4y agoIMO: There's a discussion to be had about rape, you didn't consent to pregnancy by having sex then and the child is effectively an intruder. Whether or not you're justified in killing the child is complicated there and I don't have the answer.