It doesn't matter when life begins. It doesn't matter whether a fetus is a human being or not. That entire argument is a red herring, a distraction, a subjective and unwinnable argument that could not matter less. It doesn't matter whether we're talking about a fertilized egg, or a fetus, or a baby, or a five year old, or a Nobel Prize winning pediatric oncologist. NOBODY has the right to use your body, against your will, even to save their life, or the life of another person. That's it. That's the argument. You cannot be forced to donate blood, or marrow, or organs, even though thousands die every year, on waiting lists. They cannot even harvest your organs after your death without your explicit, written, pre-mortem permission. Denying women the right to abortion means we have less bodily autonomy than a corpse.
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None of their life-saving examples is a life that they created, with full knowledge that this new life has a nine-month gestation period.
If it is their position that they have the right to kill anything that is 'using their body', then the only moral thing to do is to abstain from sex so that they don't create that life in the first place.
Would they breed puppies with the sole intention of killing them? Or would they think that was cruel and inhumane?
If their neighbor was breeding puppies with the sole intention of killing them, would they report them to PETA?
Totally right about the puppies. They would freak.
When I was a college student, and I thought that life was fair (hahahahaha) this my body thing made sense.
But guess what? Women are the ones who have the biology to grow more humans. So there is a certain “unfair” cost to that.
Men are generally stronger due to their biology. That’s why they fight other men or wild animals, to keep their women and children safe (home, village, town, country). That sometimes means they die to protect the physically weaker, but more important in the long term for new people. That’s not fair for men.
See—this is more of a mutually beneficial, yin yang, not equal but complementary, kind of situation here.
There is no equality because the biology and evolutionary specialization over millions of years led to a perfect duality. Without men and women, no more people. See how we are both important?
Really shows you how destructive the “gender is a social construct” stuff is. Literally destroys the foundational truths of humanity and civilization.
I couldn't agree with you more.