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Re:The need for world government by SideburnsOfDoom on Sunday June 26, 2022 @05:31PM (#31888199)
> Otherwise, we're pretending sentience is magically conveyed as the baby passes through the birth canal, which is silly.

You're right, that is silly. It is a silly, misleading straw-man argument.

Sentience isn't and never was the test. People in long-term comas still have rights.

Also, it's hard to define precisely, harder to test in new-born infants, who are not all that "wired up" anyway at the time of birth.

Re:The need for world government by yucky on Sunday June 26, 2022 @10:52PM (#31890108)
So at what point should we no longer be ok with ending the life of the developing human? 39 weeks? 24 weeks? 16 weeks? Somewhere else?
Re:The need for world government by SideburnsOfDoom on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:58AM (#31891413)
At what point do you stop reducing issues to misleading "trick questions"?
Re:The need for world government by yucky on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:05PM (#31899218)
It's not a trick question, it's a recognition that abortion support is rarely binary. The majority of people (even pro-choice) believe there is a point in the pregnancy where an elective abortion would be grotesque and shouldn't be allowed. What drives the divide in the debate is where we should draw that line. Conception? Viability? Birth?

It's the fundamental point in the debate, so it's far from a trick question?

Re:The need for world government by SideburnsOfDoom on Monday June 27, 2022 @03:40PM (#31899715)
a) You're moving the goalposts by inserting the word "elective" that was not there before.

b) As Mr Buttigieg said, ""If it's that late in your pregnancy, then almost by definition, you've been expecting to carry it to term" - engage with that instead of repeating yourself?

c) As the other commenter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31892643) says, this is a nonsense hypothetical

> One singular example of an abortion at 39 weeks where the mother didn't want the baby. I guarantee you can't actually find one even though you claim it exists

> It's the fundamental point in the debate

It is not, or should not be.

> believe there is a point ... shouldn't be allowed.

Again, should be a medical decision between patient and doctor, not a legal one, and not a numeric comparison.

Re:The need for world government by yucky on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:30PM (#31903459)
Dr Kermit Gosnell performed a number of elective abortions that late in term, and we only know about those because he was dumb enough to get caught killing a few after delivery.
Re:The need for world government by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @03:05AM (#31904982)
See this is the trick, the sleight-of hand - is draws you into arguing about unsubstantiated, viscerally affecting irrelevancies and hopes that you won't notice that this diverts from the substance.