(June 4, 2014 at 1:26 pm)Losty Wrote: Conceptually, does it make sense to force you to donate a kidney to someone who has a working kidney? Conceptually, does it make sense to force you to donate blood to someone who can survive without your blood? No.You prove it yourself. If the mother's right to her own body trumps the baby's right to live, then viability is not relevant.
A person's right to their own body trumps your right to live. So it's only obvious that a person's right to their own body trumps your (non-existent) right to hang out in their body without their permission.
Quote:Listen, we don't plan laws for what ifs of the future. We plan laws for now. In the future laws can and will be adjusted accordingly. You say consider a situation where a fetus is viable from the point of conception, I say consider a situation where accidental conception is not possible and people only conceive when they wish to, Beccs (I love you Beccs so I hope you don't mind being in my exampleI agree, but this was directed at DP who was making a big deal about me not replying to the Star Trek thing for awhile.) says consider a situation where people ride hover boards to work and we discover that dolphins are actually more intelligent than us and give them personhood status. None of us has any ground to stand on because we don't base laws on what could maybe change one day in the future.