Placating the Goddesses - Feticide by any other Name

Embogenous · 2012-03-31T14:35:39+00:00

the result is the same

The result isn't the same. If a mother wants a child - and especially if she isn't very fertile or has a very high risk of chromosomal abnormalities - then by killing her foetus you're forcing her to go through the entire ordeal of her pregnancy from scratch. If she's especially unlucky, it may deny her the ability to have another viable pregnancy. There's also her personal attachment to the foetus; if she doesn't want it, then she's happy about an abortion, but if somebody else kills it she'll view it as having her child being taken away from her, and will struggle to move past the wish that she could have that child, alive, now.

I'm definitely opposed to the law - seriously, if you punch or push over a woman you didn't even know was pregnant you could get a life sentence, that's insane - but it's not the same.

The only logical conclusion here is that this is not about murder or manslaughter.

My conclusion is that they want to respect a woman's right to choose what to do with her body, but prevent a woman who wants a child from losing it (for the above reasons). Is that not logical?

ignatiusloyola · 2012-03-31T14:28:51+00:00

Are you f*ing kidding?

If a woman wants to terminate her pregnancy, it is her right. But other people do not have the right to terminate her pregnancy for her.

Rewording it in whatever other retarded way is intellectually dishonest.

Title	Placating the Goddesses - Feticide by any other Name
Author	lexapro7
Upvotes	0
Comments	3
Date	March 31, 2012 1:33 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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