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[ed: just noticed I'm replying to a throwaway account. Real great how these pro-birth commenters aren't willing to back their statements with their actual accou
by olliej 3y ago
[ed: just noticed I'm replying to a throwaway account. Real great how these pro-birth commenters aren't willing to back their statements with their actual accounts]
> It changes that instead of killing a person you can carry the pregnancy to completion even if the mother wants to kill her unborn son/daughter.
If you can donate a kidney, and not doing so results in a person dying, there your decision not to kills them. More to the point, no one can force you to give up your kidney against your will. What you are saying is very clearly that the state should be able to just that.
> Hopefully in the future we can extract them from the womb and put them in an artificial womb instead.
Hopefully we can just force people to have a different forced medical procedure unlike the current one. After all, they're just women, it's not as if they have rights.
Also: embryos aren't people, the burning building test is really simple. Say a building is on fire, and you're running to escape and you come across a room containing a child and a load of fertilized eggs. Do you have to hesitate about grabbing the actual child?