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DesideriScuri -> RE: Man pleads guilty to tricking pregnant girlfriend into taking abortion pill (9/10/2013 7:44:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Oneechan
there's a clear logical failure here.
if the man is guilty of murder, then all abortion must be murder.
if abortion is not murder, then this man cannot be charged with murder. maybe harm to another person, misleading them into taking a drug, but not murder.
you can't just make murder ok because a certain person is doing it, and punish another for it.
You're dead right. There is a clear logical failure here. You wrote it.
A pregnant woman, regardless of how pregnant, is in charge of her own body. Since the fetus is growing inside her body, she has guardianship and authority over it. Now, until that fetus has personhood (at which point in time all rights afforded to a human are afforded to the fetus), the fate of that fetus is up to the woman. If the woman wants the fetus aborted, she is well within her right to have that done (so long as all laws are followed). If she wants to carry the fetus to term, she has that right, too. If someone, a man, a woman, her husband, her boyfriend, the baby-daddy, her lesbian or bisexual female partners, parents, etc., take that choice away from her without her consent, that would end up being murder. The mother, because of her choice to carry the baby to term, has, essentially, shared her human rights with it.
It is up to the woman carrying the fetus.
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