Abortion/Consciousness/Life

[FatAndFaithless]

I don't think you're getting it. I didn't say a fetus is a person. I said it doesn't matter if the fetus is a person or not. People do not have this right so a fetus (regardless if whether or not it's a person) does not have that right either.

No, you are not getting it. At some point during pregnancy, the fetus becomes viable. At that point it is another human being and has rights, too.

Is it OK for a woman to abort 1 hour before delivery? 1 day? 1 week?
When?

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Agreed. One of the big things I hear is about how a fetus is a person and how it deserves human rights. Fine, give it all the rights of any person in the US. There is no person in the country that can be forced by law to donate an organ, be the dialysis machine, or the the life support system of another human. Nobody has the legal right to use another person's body for survival without their consent, and neither does any fetus.

That is absurd 'logic'. The fetus is not making a choice. It is helpless and not responsible for even its existence.

Is your argument that a fetus may be aborted right up to the moment of birth?

Well this isn't an issue of a fetus making a choice, its about the state making laws that violate the bodily autonomy of a woman. The law can't force her to be the life support system for anyone else. And yes, she could choose to terminate the pregnancy an hour before birth, though that termination of the pregnancy wouldn't result in the death of the baby, as it would be (usually) a c-section. Again this isn't an issue of when it becomes a human or when it becomes viable, its an issue of bodily rights.