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You don't have the right to kill another person. You don't even have the right to kill most animals without sufficient reason (hence hunting permits, fines for
by cbozeman 4y ago
You don't have the right to kill another person. You don't even have the right to kill most animals without sufficient reason (hence hunting permits, fines for not properly caring for agricultural animals, etc.).
The point, which ought to be obvious to HN readers - and would have been 10 years ago - is that we as a nation never sat down and decided, "What constitutes a person?"
Personally I'm on board for telling you what you can do with your uterus in the same way European nations are - you have 12 weeks to decide. After that, you keep the baby and it's illegal to abort it. I believe every single one of the vaunted Scandinavian nations has a 12 week limit on abortion. Many tech people want to model society after them, so there you go. Start there.