Re:What I learned trying to classify abortion access across ...
by anon291 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:07AM
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> a human child can only grow if it somehow combines with food.
Indeed, and in the United States, it is a crime for a mother or father (or even most random adults) to neglect a child.
The kidney argument is often used to make the case that a woman should not have to carry a child. However, this argument falls flat.
If you find an abandoned child, you actually... have to take care of it. If you don't, you can be imprisoned. If you're the parent, you'll be imprisoned for even longer. You have a basic duty to care for children, even if not a parent.
> I'm not convinced losing a single human egg, fertilized though it may be, is especially tragic.
I can find a lot of people whose death I would not find particularly tragic. The law -- thank goodness -- doesn't follow the whims of anon291.
Indeed, and in the United States, it is a crime for a mother or father (or even most random adults) to neglect a child.
The kidney argument is often used to make the case that a woman should not have to carry a child. However, this argument falls flat.
If you find an abandoned child, you actually... have to take care of it. If you don't, you can be imprisoned. If you're the parent, you'll be imprisoned for even longer. You have a basic duty to care for children, even if not a parent.
> I'm not convinced losing a single human egg, fertilized though it may be, is especially tragic.
I can find a lot of people whose death I would not find particularly tragic. The law -- thank goodness -- doesn't follow the whims of anon291.