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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Choice is a good thing, except if I get to choose between your life and death. No? Even if you're still in your mother.[/quote]

Absolutely.  We do not give people the right to choose to take others' lives, period.  That is not in the Constitution, that is not natural law, that is against all of what human nature has ever stood for.[/quote]

But we also don't force people to give up themselves for others.

Let me give you a hypothetical.  Say you had a disease, and they only way you could survive was through a blood transfusion of a particular blood type.  Say I was the only person who had that blood type.  Would I be obligated, legally, morally, or otherwise, to donate blood to you?

That's the thing about pregnancy.  A fetus can't survive outside a woman's body, so it is true that if you remove it, it will not live on it's own.  But it doesn't follow that a woman has an absolute obligation to continue to be pregnant if she doesn't desire to.[/quote]

Let me give you another hypothetical:  no one would force you to protect your 4yo child, if he or she were in immediate danger, esp. if it meant that you would be harmed yourself in trying to protect him or her.  But wouldn't you want to do it?  Why would you, after the accident happened and your child lay in terrible agony or even was dead, say, "Oh good, well, at least I am fine."

I think people have a lack of imagination not to construe the two situations as one and the same.  It is like a Doubting Thomas sort of problem.  "IF the baby is not *here here*, and I cannot see it, it is not the same thing."  It is like the Lorax:  a person is a person no matter how small.  [/quote]

Unless it is not a person. You are getting into the realm of "when does life begin" and many, many people, including a plurality of scientists and doctors, do not believe that an embryo is the same as a four-year-old. You will continue to be frustrated if you conflate your religious beliefs with science and expect others to do the same.[/quote]

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