(March 26, 2014 at 5:33 pm)heathendegenerate Wrote:(March 26, 2014 at 5:12 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: Heathen, let me see if I can change your mind on this.
Say my kidneys are failing. Would it be ok for me to kidnap you and hook myself up to your kidneys in order to keep myself alive? The answer is no.
So why does a foetus have that right? You claim they are people but you are in fact giving them more rights than people. No one has a right to life at the expense of someone else, unless that someone else is willing.
Are you sayin if the mothers life is in danger hit the abort button, no question asked? Yea..but the doctor needs to explain it...in my world anyways.
It's always explained in those instances. Doctors weigh up the risks and inform the parents. As far as I'm concerned, in this instance, the life of a living, breathing person - the mother - has precedence over that of the child - especially if the child is not at the age of viability.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
