• Sendbeer@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    At six months were talking about more than a fetus. Baby has lungs, eyes that move around, and they listen to sounds coming from outside the woman’s body. But sure, let’s just rip 'em out and flush them so she can fit in jeans again. Sorry, but it’s a little fucked up.

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      And at six months a woman still has bodily autonomy. Period. End of story. That you think a more developed fetus means you can dictate what happens with someone else’s body is what’s fucked up.

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        Abortion at 6 months is something you aren’t going to get a lot of agreement about. That shit was almost to the point it could of been born extremely premature. I think 28-30 weeks is the earliest babies have a decent shot at living.

        You’re just arguing with someone saying something that is definitely massively unpopular is. Personally, I don’t give a fuck and think it’s fine. If we went back to throwing deformed or unwanted babies into the local lake/off a cliff, also fine with me. I don’t generally get mad at the fact that people wouldn’t approve of that.

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          Technology is improving the premie survival rate all the time. If we can pull an embryo and bring it to term after a week, should abortion be restricted similarly?

          Some other criteria is necessary.

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            I think in the last like 15 years we have gone from 22 weeks to like, 21 weeks and 3 days as the record.

            A week is silly. Most women don’t even know they are pregnant until they miss their period. Give that a week to be sure they missed it at that’s already technically 5 weeks along.

            If technology gets as good as you suggest, then we will have to reconsider everything. Governments would have to be willing to take all of them as wards of the state. Before that, we would have to make sure it was just as safe as an abortion. After that, we would have to consider if this mother has a right to not allow this lump or cells to not grow into a full grown human who has to grow up as a ward of the state.

            Very complicated ethical mess. But I don’t think technology will be there for 50+ years. I’m not sure America will even be here that long these days.

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              Sorry, yeah, I realize I was proposing a reductio ad absurdum as a thought experiment. And yes, I do think that eventually they will get to that point, but my real point was that “time since conception” is not a great metric for a legal line to draw, it’s merely a convenient one.

              I think personally, as a cis white dude with no stake in the matter, if we had to draw a line for terminations without a specific reason, we should put it somewhere around 6 months with medical exceptions. Developmental problems often don’t show up until fairly late, and I think that things like Down syndrome, major uncorrectable development abnormalities or genetic diseases or other quality-of-life issues are perfectly valid reasons for a pregnancy termination. But that’s a huge mire to get sunk into and each additional rule would require debates.

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              Governments would have to be willing to take all of them as wards of the state. Before that, we would have to make sure it was just as safe as an abortion. After that, we would have to consider if this mother has a right to not allow this lump or cells to not grow into a full grown human who has to grow up as a ward of the state.

              All of these questions apply at 6 months or whatever arbitrary date you set. Birth is a more dangerous and damaging procedure than abortion. If forcing the test tube baby extraction could be disallowed for danger, why isn’t forced birth?

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          Abortion at 6 months is something you aren’t going to get a lot of agreement about.

          Says who, you?

          What does it matter if others don’t agree, that doesn’t change the argument.

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            The siren call of the “reasonable moderate” always substituting status quo opinion polling in place of moral arguments.

            “Listen, most people don’t support gay marriage, so you shouldn’t say gay marriage should be legal.”

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        What if the unborn is a girl? At 6 months, they deserve a say in their bodily autonomy. Why are you such a raging ageaphobe?

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          bodily autonomy

          Take a look at that phrase. A fetus isn’t capable of bodily autonomy because they require their mother’s body in order to stand a chance of eventually existing (with bodily autonomy) in the world outside of it.

          Which is precisely the fucking point.