If someone knocked you and another guy unconscious, surgically attached you to one another, and said "if you cut this, he dies. But if you live with this for 9 months you'll both be fine," you would kill the other victim?
You ask that as if you think the answer is obvious - you probably are a better man than I. Would I have the right to? But if that scenario is too horrory for you, imagine a Great Scientific Advance(tm) that allows a terminally ill man (in his 30s) to live if he is attached to your body for 9 months, and only your body (cause else the thought experiment does not work).
Would you have the right to say no, or can the state conscript you involuntarily for the noble purpose of keeping this man alive?
Even if you are Mother Teresa and would be willing to sacrifice yourself for 9 months to save another, surely you would not want to be forced.
That would be a convincing argument if we were weighing the rights of the rapist against the mother. But we're not. We're considering about what, if any, rights the child has. They did not conscript anything. They had no agency in the situation and are, arguably, as much a victim as the mother.
Nor was I calling you a rapist. But you are advocating for inflicting further suffering on the woman because of the rape. Your right over your own body is absolute, which people on both sides forget whenever it is convenient. It means that when you did not ask to be raped, it is your absolute right to get rid of the result, same as me with that other victim in the horror scenario.
The one being terminated in the home is an aggressor. The one being terminated in an abortion in as innocent. That goes a long way in judging if it's moral to kill them.
Another pro-abortion argument that annoys me: WHY ARE YOU FOR THE DEATH PENALTY?
Cause they murdered someone, and the fetus didn't.
B) Ban after a specific point in the gestational timeline. This position relies on not considering anything before that point a human life.
This is my position. It is human life, similar to how a brain-dead person is a human life. Many people recognize that life does not mean much when everything else is gone.
The first two are empirically analyzable. The third isn't. Which is creates a incentive for anyone desiring an abortion to claim rape. It would be a disaster.
As far as I know, there are precedents where this does not occur. Our delusional friend just believes that every woman is out there to accuse him of rape to get an abortion.
Personally, I'd go with B. Abortion is too useful preventing unwanted people to outright ban but C allows for out and out murder.
You ask that as if you think the answer is obvious - you probably are a better man than I. Would I have the right to? But if that scenario is too horrory for you, imagine a Great Scientific Advance(tm) that allows a terminally ill man (in his 30s) to live if he is attached to your body for 9 months, and only your body (cause else the thought experiment does not work).
Would you have the right to say no, or can the state conscript you involuntarily for the noble purpose of keeping this man alive?
Even if you are Mother Teresa and would be willing to sacrifice yourself for 9 months to save another, surely you would not want to be forced.
Nor was I calling you a rapist. But you are advocating for inflicting further suffering on the woman because of the rape. Your right over your own body is absolute, which people on both sides forget whenever it is convenient. It means that when you did not ask to be raped, it is your absolute right to get rid of the result, same as me with that other victim in the horror scenario.
Another pro-abortion argument that annoys me: WHY ARE YOU FOR THE DEATH PENALTY?
Cause they murdered someone, and the fetus didn't.
This is my position. It is human life, similar to how a brain-dead person is a human life. Many people recognize that life does not mean much when everything else is gone.
As far as I know, there are precedents where this does not occur. Our delusional friend just believes that every woman is out there to accuse him of rape to get an abortion.
I agree.