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| Lucius Black wrote: | | Quote: | | Yes, I'm afraid it does. The fact of the matter is that you can not force her to carry a foetus. She chose to have sex and assuming she is over 21/20/19/18/17/16/15 (depending on the country in question), she has the right to have sex. There is no annotation to the right to consent to have sexual intercourse that says "as long as she doesn't abort a baby she conceives." She has the right to have or not to have sex and the right to have or not to have a child and there is no point in any constitution or bill of rights or what have you where those two rights overlap. |
I wouldn't bring the Constitution into this because quite frankly, I don't believe a lot of what's in there. I'm not arguing about current law. I'm arguing about common sense.
She chose to have sex. She chose pregnancy. No need to destroy an innocent life in the name of shame/laziness. Arguing that it isn't life is stupid. A baby in the womb 5 minutes before birth isn't dead. It's virtually the same as a born baby, just depending on it's mother for life, as a born baby also would. |
Actually, I'm not talking about the American Constitution, which I don't give a crap about. I'm talking about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Regardless, the Constitution is the law of your country and you can't simply dismiss it as an argumentative tool because "quite frankly, [you] don't believe a lot of what's in there."
Also, common sense was why people believed that the Earth was flat, that mountains became hotter as you climbed higher and the seas became hotter as you sailed south. "Common sense" is a far less valid argumentative tool and piece of evidence than the law.
She may have chosen to have sex, but she did not choose pregnancy. If she chose pregnancy, she wouldn't be looking for a freaking abortion.
A born baby does not depend on its mother for life, if it did then there wouldn't be single fathers and there would be no place for nurseries or nannies (irrespective of gender).
It all comes down to the simple fact that a woman is a protected citizen of a government and is protected in her right to not have her body interfered with without her permission, and that includes being forced to carry a foetus. A foetus is not a protected citizen of any government and is not so protected and holds no such right.
To be counted as living things, organisms must have the following characteristics; movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, homeostasis, reproduction, excretion and nutrition, that is to say that an organism must;
1) Be able to move.
2) Be able to burn food to provide energy.
3) Be able to sense its environment.
4) Be able to grow.
5) Be able to regulate and control its internal environment.
6) Be able to reproduce.
7) Be able to excrete waste.
8) Be able to absorb food for respiration.
A foetus does not qualify as it is missing numbers 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8.
| Lucius Black wrote: | | Quote: | | Of course not, don't be foolish. In the case of an abortion, the woman is only doing something to their own body, |
The annoys the living daylights out of me. Somebody seems to say it every time I debate abortion. She's not just doing something to her body. She's doing it to the child's body. I'm getting sick of that. |
If that happens every time you debate abortion, has it occurred to you that maybe you're wrong? That maybe, the potential child's potential body is less important than the actual woman's actual body? Is the real reason that you're sick of that because you're wrong and you can't think of a more valid argument than "That's not what I think."
| Lucius Black wrote: | | Quote: | | ....in the case of somebody murdering another sentient person, they are doing something to another person's body, which, as I have stated above, they have no right to do. |
Again, getting sick of this. |
Again, is the real reason that you're sick of that because you're wrong and you can't think of a more valid argument than "That's not what I think." _________________
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