Re: So, is miscarriage murder?
by
DBuss
07/15/2008, 2:58 PM
My goal is not to stop all abortions at any cost. It is to reduce
abortions as much as reasonablly possible using any moral means -
economic, legal, social, etc.
OK, let's explore this. Are we willing to remove home pregnancy tests to keep women ignorant? Are we willing to violate Doctor-patent privilege and force Doctors to tell the state about what women do? Are we willing to lie to women and tell them that abortion is more risky than pregancy?
Are we willing to *make* abortion much more risky and increase the death rate among the women who get them so it isn't a lie?
As medical technology improves, pregnancy will get easier and safer. Is
there some point at which it could get easy and safe enough that it
would change your mind?
My mind? With the current laws and morals (and mother nature) pregnancy is always going to be a major undertaking and have permanent side effects.
Rather than pretend it doesn't or try to change mother nature, let's change the law and ethics. At the moment we have no obligation to help each other.
If I see a woman being raped outside my front door, I don't have the obligation to call the police, much less personally run out to stop it.
Do we want to live in a world where I am obligated? I.e. if I need your kidney, are you good with being *forced* to give it to me?
Does the twin who will die as the result of the seperation have the right to try to fight back?
We don't currently have the right to attack each other, and paracitely living off someone else's life and constantly causing them injury counts as that. If you are injuring me, I have the right to stop you, even if it kills you.
BTW, "Fighting" and "Screaming" is *very* unrealistic since if you were capable of doing either you'd be the stronger twin.