You think your friends are murderers, only free because of legal technicalities, yet you treat them no differently? I really, really don't get that. Severe cognitive dissonance.
Your last-para statement betrays a deep lack of knowledge of the pro-choice position. The pro-choice position retains its logical validity _even if_ a fetus is a "person". Pro-choice people see the rights of the mother not lesser than the rights of the embryo or fetus. No person can be forced into bodily slavery. No women can have her rights subsumed to that of an embryo or fetus. Every woman has bodily sovereignty. It's as simple as that. Women have the same rights as everyone else.
I hope I never, ever live in your world. My life would constantly be under threat for the next ten years, and my work would involve trying to save the lives of mothers half- or mostly-dead from illegal abortions, and counselling their surviving partners and children. A bleak world indeed.
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regna
Re: Generalizing much?
Date: 2009-02-05 01:54 am (UTC)Your last-para statement betrays a deep lack of knowledge of the pro-choice position. The pro-choice position retains its logical validity _even if_ a fetus is a "person". Pro-choice people see the rights of the mother not lesser than the rights of the embryo or fetus. No person can be forced into bodily slavery. No women can have her rights subsumed to that of an embryo or fetus. Every woman has bodily sovereignty. It's as simple as that. Women have the same rights as everyone else.
I hope I never, ever live in your world. My life would constantly be under threat for the next ten years, and my work would involve trying to save the lives of mothers half- or mostly-dead from illegal abortions, and counselling their surviving partners and children. A bleak world indeed.