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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care if the fetus can write a dissertation on why it has a right to life.  What it does NOT have is the right to parasitize a human who does not want it inside them.

If it were a fully sentient alien, a living, thinking being capable of communication, feelings, pain - it still would not have the right to force me to let it live inside me for any period of time.  Now, do I think allowing it to be there for nine months and enduring some (serious) discomfort and risk is the right thing to do?  Absolutely.  But nobody should be able to force me to be an incubator for another life.  Making laws to do so is the government taking away my personal liberty, my bodily soveriegnity.  And I won't stand for it.  [/quote]

Working from the parasite viewpoint, who put that parasite in your body?  A fetus doesn't magically invade a woman's body just out of the blue.  Unless you were raped or molested, it didn't force its way inside of you.  If you grew up in some isolated bubble and had no knowledge whatsoever of the birds and the bees, then perhaps this arguement would have some logic behind it.  A woman has 50% of the responsibility of planting this parasite in her body.

The arguments about privacy, social implications of unwanted pregnancies, etc, have merit as arguments.

But the argument of how dare this fetus parasite my body and force me to host it is ridiculous, given that you put that parasite in your body, or at least created a situation where it was created.  It didn't ask to be in your body, it didn't invade you.  You put it there.[/quote]

But I don't think that ends the discussion.  Let's say you agreed to donate blood to another adult, and that adult needed regular transfusions of your blood (and only your blood) for 9 months or she would die.  For a few months, you donated regularly.  And then, one day, you decided you wanted to stop.  Regardless of whether you think that decision is morally right, do you think the state should be able to lock you up and force you to give her your blood, even though you put yourself in that position in the first place?[/quote]

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