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>Nobody else is entitled to occupy space in, or take nourishment from my body. If you have a newborn baby and refuse to feed them and they die, you'll be tried
by HideousKojima 4y ago
>Nobody else is entitled to occupy space in, or take nourishment from my body.
If you have a newborn baby and refuse to feed them and they die, you'll be tried for murder. The baby being inside or outside of the body doesn't change the responsibility the mother has to it.
- vkou 4y agoThe mother can give up that child any time she wants. Nobody's forcing her to take on those responsibilities. If the child fails to survive as a ward of the state, it's no longer her problem. The child doesn't have the right to make this imposition on anyone in particular, whether via money, or via blood. Speaking of blood, I need a kidney, you have two. Can we cut you open against your will, and take one, for my use? I'll die without one. Surely, my right to life is more important then your right to your own person. After all, that right isn't enumerated anywhere in the constitution...