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Re:What I learned trying to classify abortion access across ... by abduhl on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:20PM (#32143919)
I’ll preface this by saying I am militantly pro choice but, to the anti abortion side, abortion is also “torturing newborns until they die” because they believe the fetus is as much a person as a newborn. Your moral position is just as disturbing to them as theirs is to you.
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Re:What I learned trying to classify abortion access across ... by jandrese on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:25PM (#32144002)
A fetus is not a newborn by definition.

When a baby is going to be in constant pain for its entire life due to medical complications it is really hard to justify bringing them into the world.

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Re:What I learned trying to classify abortion access across ... by abduhl on Monday July 18, 2022 @05:40PM (#32144233)
What’s the distinction? Is a a newborn cognitively different from a fetus at 18 weeks? 24? 30? Why is a baby that suffers for its entire “life” of two weeks outside the womb different? Why does its “life” inside the womb not count? When does this fundamental change occur? That’s the debate we should be having, not whatever this current debate politicians are having is. Extreme moral statements like the one you made only serve to be divisive and to distract from the real conversation.
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