By: Earl G.
How is it flawed? If you consent to driving, then you are consenting to the risk of dangerous awful things happening to your body. Just like consenting to sex. Yet you for some reason have no...
View ArticleBy: Earl G.
The whole “alive” thing is such a non sequitur. The last time I blew my nose, the tissue was full of “life,” including human life. We should all be condemned to hold in our boogers for nine months!
View ArticleBy: Earl G.
Sailor, you know ACTUAL DATA isn’t going to convince these people. Really though, the fact that they couldn’t care less about actually reducing abortion rates makes it utterly clear that their goal is...
View ArticleBy: Brian Pansky
cows can’t consent. I suspect the unborn have less brain function than trout. Many cells in your body have unique DNA, UV radiation does mutate them. “end a life” is a red herring. trout are life....
View ArticleBy: Brian Pansky
allowing people to not be forced into blood transfusion/symptoms of pregnancy/risks associated etc is “sometimes necessary”? Bodily autonomy of people is only sometimes necessary?
View ArticleBy: Earl G.
I’m happy to hear someone else say this. I’m as pro-abortion-rights as they come, but the “so just don’t have an abortion” argument makes my skin crawl. It completely fails to acknowledge where the...
View ArticleBy: Earl G.
I think Foster’s point was that there was a time in history when slaves were not considered legal persons with human rights. If we wish to counter his/her point of view on abortion, we need to...
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Women who get abortions are also being “held responsible.” It is not a pain-free, costless procedure.
View ArticleBy: Foster
More argument, less bluster, friend, since you’ve chosen to break your promise to yourself not to respond.
View ArticleBy: Foster
Quite right, EG. The history of human rights is of their being gradually expanded to include greater and larger classes of people, from Hamurabi to Magna Carta, to the Declaration of Independence to...
View ArticleBy: Mandocommando23
You are a perfect example of my problem with certain people in the pro-choice movement. Have you seen what an aborted fetus looks like? It’s no more a clump of cells than you are. You’re just farther...
View ArticleBy: Deven Kale
Yes I have seen what they look like, it hasn’t changed my mind. My opinion has nothing to do with what it looks like. I do not deny that it’s human, nor that it’s alive. What I deny is that it has any...
View ArticleBy: Deven Kale
I’m glad that you consider a pregnant woman more than an incubator, because I believe she is too. But what you’re advocating for is exactly that. You’re saying that a pregnant woman must take the...
View ArticleBy: C Peterson
Quite correct. This follows from the idea that there are no natural human rights, merely the rights that humans, primarily through their society, choose to define. While slave-owning is a violation of...
View ArticleBy: SphericalBunny
K, I understand your point an’ all, the problem is there is a difference in category here; people classed as ‘slaves’ and ‘sub-human’ have not fundamentally changed; the acceptance of their rights has....
View ArticleBy: SphericalBunny
You seem like a nice enough person, but seriously, fuck off. I do not ‘owe’ anyone a chance to take advantage of my body. You might be an amazing person who would personally feel great that if science...
View ArticleBy: SphericalBunny
Actually, when I had a miscarriage, it really was just a ‘clump of cells’. Seriously indistinguishable from a period (other than time + pain factor). Yes, it was early, but if you’ve heard certain...
View ArticleBy: SphericalBunny
Yes, that is a fact. It is also a fact that no other person has a right to whom I lend my vital organs to; or to whom I let reside within my body. You would give unique regard to the unborn. On what...
View ArticleBy: SphericalBunny
‘Bad habits’ is a very different thing when argued in the perspective of, say a single college student, as opposed to an expectant mother. Without knowing if they are pregnant or not, please tell me if...
View ArticleBy: C Peterson
I don’t know how to challenge the ethics of a different society. The only way I know how to judge them is by their own standards. I don’t consider it possible for an entire society to act unethically...
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