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You're right that there is a consensus of "miscarriages are unfortunate, let's try to minimize how often it happens." What does not exist is a consensus that a
by Terr_ 1y ago
You're right that there is a consensus of "miscarriages are unfortunate, let's try to minimize how often it happens."
What does not exist is a consensus that a blastocyst is (consistently) equal in personhood to a newborn, with equal levels of loss and tragedy. I trust that this is obvious without the need for lurid comparisons.
So while the two vectors may share a direction, the amplitudes are very different. Kind of like how it's important to floss your teeth, it's not so important that failure becomes a crime.
- achierius 1y agoYou would be surprised. Plenty of (sufficiently religious) people will indeed hold funerals for and bury miscarriages, if they're at all identifiable. What you seem to expect is that they attempt to force other people to do so -- but unlike killing an organism, "failing to mourn" an organism is not really a crime under any moral framework, so the impetus just isn't there in the same way.