• MentalEdge
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    46
    ·
    4 months ago

    According to the article linked by another commenter, it literally is.

    She was ticketed, but it was then dismissed in court, because she was right.

              • MentalEdge
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                5
                ·
                edit-2
                4 months ago

                Hardly. Infanticide being illegal doesn’t compromise the body autonomy of anyone, but abortion being illegal, does.

            • Flax@feddit.uk
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              12
              ·
              4 months ago

              Foetus are pretty conscious. They kick about in the womb among other things. Saw an ultrasound of an abortion and the poor thing was trying to resist ☹️

              • MentalEdge
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                5
                ·
                4 months ago

                By your logic, any moving animal is conscious and aware?

                • Flax@feddit.uk
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  3
                  ·
                  4 months ago

                  Yes? Animals are conscious and aware of their surroundings

                  • MentalEdge
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    3
                    ·
                    4 months ago

                    You remember being in the womb then? Or being a sperm? Those move, you know.

                    Bacteria move, but I don’t think you can argue they have minds capable of suffering. Your body would be doing a lot of murder every second of every day in that case. What about insects? Do you consider ants and mosquitos conscious? Should they be protected by animal rights laws?

                    For a lot of the duration of a pregnancy, a fetus is not composed of enough cells to be much different.

                    The body autonomy, let alone the health of a woman should not be compromised to “protect” a life that isn’t a life yet.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        4 months ago

        And those unborn people should be able to be killed if the mother doesn’t want them. As long as they require her body to stay alive.

        As nobody should be able to force what an other person does with the things in their body.