Three plaintiffs testified about the trauma they experienced carrying nonviable pregnancies.

  • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.world
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    The government protecting a fetus is the government taking away a woman’s right to her own life and body.

    One could easily argue that the government letting the woman end the fetus’ life is ruining the fetus’ right to his/her own life and body.

    If you want the government to force women to literally risk their lives for 9 months you’re putting a pile of cells’s rights above a woman’s.

    1. the likelihood of a life risking event is fairly rare, and I’m for exceptions to that

    2. Your first sentence says that even if I believe the fetus is a human life that should be protected, your reply would be the same, so why’d you switch your terminology back? You should have said “You’re putting a human life that should be protected above a woman’s” - once again, you try and pull this emotional terminology rather than being consistent.

    Either you see women as humans with equal rights and value as yourself, or you believe a fetus has more rights than a woman.

    I think all 3 have equal rights, and that none of us should be able to end the life of the others.

    The only other possibility is you are the type who actually does want the government to force people to donate blood and organs

    I agree, it’s a tough moral dilemma, which makes it hard to have honest conversations about this. That’s the biggest argument on the pro-choices corner, in my opinion. But the fact that it’s the mothers intentional actions that brought the life to the world makes me lean towards the pro-life side. Contraceptives are easily accessible, I’m for policies that make them available freely to all women. I’m for policies that increase sexual education on pregnancies. I’m for increased funding to the adoptive care system along with foster care systems. I’m for policies ensuring proper healthcare for pregnant women.

    I wish more republicans will say this - if we want to be pro life - reduce unwanted pregnancies, provide care to pregnant women and fund options for the baby if they want to provide that baby to a more willing family.