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[quote=Anonymous]The reason I cannot get on board with the Dem position in this issue is their complete denial that any fetus in any stage is a living being with rights. A fetus is not simply tissue in the mother’s body.

I believe in bodily autonomy, and that no woman should be forced to remain pregnant. However, no one has the right to demand that a viable fetus be killed. But we don’t see the left advocating for the right to early inductions or C sections resulting in live births for women who do not wish to or cannot remain pregnant. Why is that? Because the entire point of many of these procedures is that the fetus is killed and ceases to exist. I’m talking about “medical” abortions where the fetus is being killed due to being diagnosed with a disability or hereditary disease. For those of us who don’t believe in euthanasia ESPECIALLY for those who cannot choose it, this is not materially different from infanticide. 
Before you start lecturing me, I know firsthand the burden that families experience when they are faced with giving birth to a baby who will not survive more than a few hours or days, and I am fully aware of the enormous burden that families with disabled children experience. IMO these burdens are made worse by the fact that our society devalues individuals with disabilities and physical differences, so fewer are born (because they are aborted), so they are less “seen” in society, and therefore more stigmatized and less supported since most people are not impacted firsthand.[/quote]

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