RE: Abortion and Women's Rights
June 4, 2014 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2014 at 1:31 pm by Losty.)
(June 4, 2014 at 8:18 am)alpha male Wrote: Viability has bigger problems.No it does not
Quote:Conceptually, does it make sense that a woman be forced to keep a baby inside her body because it could probably survive outside her body?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.
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:Also, viability is affected by technology. As you look forward to a time with AI, consider the situation if we become able to grow (so to speak) a baby from conception outside of the womb. Based on a viability standard, abortion should then be outlawed.
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 example
) 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.
