RE: Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic
November 29, 2015 at 3:46 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2015 at 3:47 am by robvalue.)
(November 28, 2015 at 11:16 pm)robvalue Wrote: How would the government protect the "rights" of a fetus? The only ways I can think of are to punish people who have been found to have had an abortion, or to imprison pregnant women so that they can't seek an abortion.
I would hope no one would suggest the latter, so what would be a suitable punishment in the eyes of someone who wants abortion to be illegal?
Or... would it be the person who carried out the abortion who got punished? Or both?
I'm repeating this as no one against abortion appears to have answered
Also, on the issue of rights, I would say nothing and no one inherently has "rights". It's an abstract value judgement. They only have whatever legal protection society deems appropriate. So to just say a fetus has rights is a meaningless phrase, if those "rights" can be completely legally ignored. You could say it should have rights, of course.
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