New Iowa Law Restricts Abortion To Before Most Women Know They're Pregnant

[Rev. Rye]

By around twenty weeks gestation, a human fetus can taste, dream, hear its mother’s voice, experience comfort and distress, and possibly (though it’s disputed) feel pain.  Just because a living thing isn’t fully conscious doesn’t mean there is no moral discussion to be had here.  Most emotionally well-adjusted folk wouldn’t think it right to stomp out their hamster when they’ve grown tired of it.  Maybe we can give an experiential human fetus at least as much consideration as we would give a hamster.

Is the hamster living inside the owner .

Yeah, if we could somehow evict the fetus and move it to another womb, either an artificial one or implanted in the womb of a childless woman who wanted one, things would be different and I'd be supporting this. I'd probably be a little less than enthused about the increase in the surplus population, but this would actually be a good solution to this issue. From my understanding, most on-demand abortions aren't motivated by wanting the fetus dead, but by wanting it gone and out of her, and killing it just happens to be the only way to do it without waiting several months for it to be born. However, such a solution is, at best, likely several decades from being a viable option, and at worst, biologically impossible. And thus, if the options are A) force a woman to carry an being inside her that she does not want inside her, or B) give her the option of killing it, it's not hard to see why I'd choose to give her the option.