(February 24, 2012 at 3:09 pm)Undeceived Wrote: So you're saying yes, it's human life, but as long as that life is within your physical confines you can do with it whatever you please? If I put a midget in my stomach would I automatically have supreme power over he/she? You'll say I had the choice to put it there, but so does the woman.
As crazy as this might sound but technically Yes. Its a bizarre analogy, so it requires a bizarre response, so forgive me.
First you make the assumption "Put a midget in my stomach". Abortions are rarely because they "changed their mind" after getting deliberately pregnant so its not a question of intent.
So if we bypass this and more realistically say a human crawled inside your body without your consent and lived off you as a parasite, then yes.. you would have a moral right for it to be removed imo.
However this still bypasses the difference between Zygote and fully functioning human, and they are not the same thing. The human can be caused harm, can feel pain, and make a rational decision, a Zygote can do none of those things.
All this talk of humans being conceived at conception are basically consciously or unconsciously hiding their true motivations of objection to the potential of a person, but cannot say so as it opens up a can of worms in terms of potentiality (outlawing male masturbation for instance
).
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If you’re going to watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there’s a church with a ghoul, or a ghost in a school. They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The f**king janitor or the dude who runs the waterslide. Throughout history every mystery. Ever solved has turned out to be. Not Magic. ― Tim Minchin, Storm
