Babies are made when egg and sperm come together. Biology 101 |
Please please please keep saying that “ cannot be left up to mother and doctor” Please |
So, sperm should have rights, too. |
Let’s play a different game. You have a set of identical twins. One of the siblings needs a kidney transplant and is doing vital national security work. The only match identified is with the twin. Twin does not want to be an organ donor. Patient is at end of life without a new kidney. Does the state have a right here to insist that the twin become an organ donor? Or is this a choice that can only be made by the donor? |
Just remember young people
Republicans think the state needs to be involved in your medical care. You are your doctor can’t be trusted The state needs to decide. |
Then what are you doing to restore those rights? What did you do to prevent their erosion? Roe was a gift to the conservatives and they didn’t even realize it. It gave them partial control during a time in history where people were willing to accept the idea that the state could have partial control of a woman’s body. Now the states have shown what they’d do with total control: let ten year old rape victims bear their rapists children. Shown what the states do with total control, I’m not at all surprised more people don’t want to trust them with a little control anymore. |
Rs are the death panel |
most rational people would keep out of other people's medical decisions. most rational people would not force a girl to have her rapist's baby. most rational people would not force a mother to have her deformed baby who won't live past a few hours to go through the agony of carrying and birthing that baby. you are the irrational one and want the government to tread on people's freedom to manage their own health. |
Rational people have seen how much can go wrong with pregnancy, and how only doctors should be deciding with patients what is best. |
Ok. Someone up thread remarked that: “this is an issue of freedom for a woman and mother, it is between her and her medical practitioner, not the state” would resonate with non-evangelical libertarians. As a non-evangelical libertarian, I agree that it is an issue of freedom for a woman, but that it is also an issue of a right to life for the fetus, and that a line must be drawn somewhere during the pregnancy when the fetus’s right to life takes precedence. I remarked that “I think most rationale people realize that if the mother is seeking to terminate a pregnancy, there is no one to advocate for the developing-person-in-utero except the state. And the state has no tool to give it a voice except by laws.” I later remarked that “I think the lines drawn by the Roe v Wade decision were reasonable limitations.” That’s it. I think the Roe decision was reasonable; it placed limitations on the right to an abortion. I think it’s appropriate for the state to say, after the second trimester, abortions should be limited except in very rare cases. So all of that to say, as a non-evangelical libertarian, I think the issue is more nuanced than how it was presented by the upthread poster. |
Yep. Your view is the law that Ohioans are pushing to make law this November. Our legislators are pushing a total ban with no exceptions, and the voters want access until viability, and then after that, a doctor is making the decision for best care the health of the mother and baby. Very sensible. |
Having said all that, I don’t think Roe is the ONLY reasonable line. But having said that, I don’t think a total ban is reasonable either. |
Why does a fetus have a greater right to life than a newborn? This position has never made sense to me. No American can be forced to donate their body to provide lifesaving care to a newborn, but a woman has to endanger her health and risk her to give live-providing care to a fetus? Why? |
^ those are 2 different posters |