the fetus is a person at the expense of the rights of the ACTUAL PERSON giving birth to it.
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Y'know, there was some n00b at Pharyngula who jumped into a discussion of women's rights and wanted to turn it into a discussion of exactly when the woman has to cede her bodily rights to the fetus' right to life, apparently trying to pin down an exact day in the last trimester when it was "too late" - and often bringing up the fanciful hypthetical of a woman who "just changes her mind" at 8.5 months.
The Pharyngulites tore him limb from virtual limb for the triple crimes of trying to derail the conversation, demanding that the (male) blog owner answer while ignoring the many women pointing out their actual experiences, and the overall inability to grasp that a woman has bodily rights that cannot be ceded to another at any time, period, end of sentence.
You cannot legally compel a woman to donate an organ to anyone, including her own child. This is simply reiterating that point as the goal posts move.
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Date: 2012-04-14 10:05 pm (UTC)*headbang*headbang*headbang*
Y'know, there was some n00b at Pharyngula who jumped into a discussion of women's rights and wanted to turn it into a discussion of exactly when the woman has to cede her bodily rights to the fetus' right to life, apparently trying to pin down an exact day in the last trimester when it was "too late" - and often bringing up the fanciful hypthetical of a woman who "just changes her mind" at 8.5 months.
The Pharyngulites tore him limb from virtual limb for the triple crimes of trying to derail the conversation, demanding that the (male) blog owner answer while ignoring the many women pointing out their actual experiences, and the overall inability to grasp that a woman has bodily rights that cannot be ceded to another at any time, period, end of sentence.
You cannot legally compel a woman to donate an organ to anyone, including her own child. This is simply reiterating that point as the goal posts move.