barelypure said:You're putting words in my mouth and coming up with the wrong conclusion to make your ideas sound better. When does a zygote become an embryo become a fetus become a human? IOW when the abortion takes place is whether it's murder or not.SmaptyWolf said:Actually, you're much worse. I don't believe it's a "life" until later in the process. You seem to believe it's a life much much earlier, which would make abortion murder (these are "beliefs", not "facts"). So you're saying that before 24 weeks something you consider murder is acceptable sometimes?barelypure said:
You're trying to obfuscate by including all rapes. Except we're talking about a rape that leads to pregnancy where the woman wants to abort the baby. In those cases yes if we're going to take the life of another person then there needs to be some accounting of those responsible.
If a woman is raped and there is no pregnancy or she decides not to get an abortion than that's her decision. IDK maybe I'm more conscious of taking a life with no consequences than you are.
So YOU are advocating murders. I'm not.
The only two rational positions here are either you think it's murder, in which case ALL abortions (and IVF, etc) should be illegal regardless of the mental/physical suffering of the mother, or you don't think it's murder (until the latest stage of pregnancy), in which case the mother's rights to bodily autonomy should certainly come first.
We can start with if the abortion fails and the baby is delivered live and then the decision is made to abort is that murder and work backwards.
Ok, I'm confused. So what was your problem with Roe, exactly? Regardless of whatever fan fiction you've read, here's all Roe did:
- During a pregnant person's first trimester (12 weeks), the Court held, a state cannot regulate abortion beyond requiring that the procedure be performed by a licensed doctor in medically safe conditions.
- During the second trimester (up tp 24 weeks), the Court held that a state may regulate abortion if the regulations are reasonably related to the health of the pregnant person.
- During the third trimester of pregnancy, the state's interest in protecting the potential human life outweighs the right to privacy. As a result, the state may prohibit abortions unless an abortion is necessary to save the life or health of the pregnant person.
So the states were already individually regulating their abortions, Roe was just a guardrail to prevent outright bans. If you're not interested in an outright ban, what problem could you possibly have had with Roe?