Re: THE RANT THREAD!
omg, I just had the funniest comment on my blog post that was (sort of, among other things) about abortion:
Was that your SIL, lol?
(if not in fact, in attitude?)
...which makes me wonder WTF is wrong with people not looking words up before they use them?
A fetus is not autonomous (heck, a CHILD isn't even mostly autonomous until at least 6-7, and some "normal" adults are never fully autonomous). Were it to be outside the womb, depending on its level of development, it would be unable to eat, and even unable to breathe without medical interventions. It doesn't even have a coin flip's chance of survival until 23/24 weeks.
Originally posted by Minion
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Can you adequately justify destroying the body of an autonomous human being, based only on its inconvenient location? Why does YOUR body deserve the honor, respect and rights you delineate here, yet an unborn child does not?
(if not in fact, in attitude?)
...which makes me wonder WTF is wrong with people not looking words up before they use them?
A fetus is not autonomous (heck, a CHILD isn't even mostly autonomous until at least 6-7, and some "normal" adults are never fully autonomous). Were it to be outside the womb, depending on its level of development, it would be unable to eat, and even unable to breathe without medical interventions. It doesn't even have a coin flip's chance of survival until 23/24 weeks.
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