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SophiaCorrupted -> RE: What are some of your most controversial opinions? (2/8/2008 12:05:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord
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ORIGINAL: SophiaCorrupted
A firefighters responsibility, and livelihood is to save children in this instance. Their place in society revolves around saving these children. It is no one's responsibility, particularly not any nosy pro-life types, to control what comes and goes in my vagina
This is to say that, if a woman installed knives in her vagina then slept with random men, she couldn't be held liable for assault?
Of course, it's a silly scenerio, but my point is that one's rights over his own body are mitigated when there's another body involved. When two bodies are in contact, you can't just say "it's my body" and have it justify everything. If you could, then rape would be legal. Afterall, you can't tell the man where his penis can and can't go, or the female rapist what can and can't go into her vagina.
In short, you're completely neglecting the rights of others. In this case, children.
I think this is would be a good line of thought, however I dont' consider a fetus to be a child, much less a human being. If being biologically human naturally led to being a person, we'd have accomplished cloning by now. Until some semblances of ambition and self preservation are showed, I consider a fetus to be an object with potentional, in the same way I do about sperm, or a DNA strand. Even once a fetus has become more "person" like, I don't think the decision to abort is anything more than a philosophical one (I doubt we'll ever answer concretely if a fetus "wants" life.) and should not be something that anyone tries to control for anyone except for themselves.
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