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Re:30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Hum... by triceratops on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:10AM (#23590853)
The counter-argument I've heard to that is even if a fetus is a life (debatable), "pro-lifers" are requisitioning a person's body against their will to sustain that life. Which is inconsistent with what we as a society would do in any other similar situation. For example, organ donation. We don't even assume consent to use the organs of dead bodies, let alone force live donors to surrender their spare kidneys.
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Re:30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Hum... by int_19h on Sunday June 21, 2020 @06:18AM (#23591131)
To be more specific, this argument was popularized by Judith Jarvis Thomson in her essay "A Defense of Abortion".

https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.h...

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Re:30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Hum... by triceratops on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:09PM (#23604609)
Cool, I didn't know where this argument originated from. Thanks for the source.
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Re:30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Hum... by gbrown on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:35AM (#23591935)
That’s why I like “anti-forced-birthing” more than “pro-choice”.
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Re:30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Hum... by rightbyte on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:37AM (#23590967)
You could argue landlords should not be able to evict tenants willy nilly if they change their mind about the lease.
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Re:30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Hum... by triceratops on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:13PM (#23604684)
Isn't that already the case? You can't evict tenants in the middle of a lease if they have honored all the terms of the lease. It's a contract.
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