![]() There is also a huge difference between murdering a human who has lived on this earth, who has family and friends, who has a job, who has hobbies, who has complex thoughts, wishes, dreams, etc. The only person we are holding legally responsible for another's life is the mother, who may be in need of an abortion due to an underlying medical condition or pregnancy complication herself (and where is her right to life?). And if a stranger sees your kid dangling off a cliff, they are under no legal obligation to help. If the child needs an organ to live and the parent is a match, they can deny giving an organ even if their child will die. In the case of a child who has experienced brain death and is on life support, the parent can take the child off of life support, even though their heart is beating. Even if helping an imperiled person would impose NO RISK to yourself, you do not commit a crime if you choose to not render assistance. We also have "No Duty to Rescue" laws, which state the average person is under no legal obligation to help someone in distress. Most anti-abortion points have to extend rights to the fetus that the fetus does not have. A fetus does not have bodily autonomy because they aren't autonomous. I'm hoping I'm just misinterpreting your points, but bodily autonomy doesn't apply to the fetus because it is a birth right and the fetus is not born (and I'm pretty sure the right to life is also a birth right). So all that being said, the right to bodily autonomy can give you the choice to legally kill someone in a sense, and given that the baby is inside the mother's womb, well, the baby is subject to bodily autonomy and the right to life is made irrelevant (in a legal context). Obviously people should have a legal right to choose who they will have children with, but on the moral level is choosing to not have sex akin to murder? Are all those Bobs and Charlies and Davids being murdered? ![]() Every time two people meet and decide to not have children together, they are preventing the births of all the children that they might have had. There are billions of Bobs who could be here and are not. Bob does not live as a result of the abortion, this is the same as murder. The fact that a thing can one day become something amazing does not mean that it is already valuable.īob is, obviously, a living human being, but if he was aborted at any time during his mother's pregnancy, he wouldn't be here, there would be no Bob. If that paint and wood had been destroyed, da Vinci would simply have acquired some different paint and wood to make his art. That paint and wood would one day become the Mona Lisa, but it had much less value because it had none of the qualities that make the Mona Lisa valuable. It is a fantastically valuable painting, but at the start of the 16th century, the Mona Lisa existed only as oil paint and a wooden panel. ![]() A zygote is just a cell, and it is nowhere near to having the capacity to care about its own life.Ĭonsider the Mona Lisa. It is killing a human because a zygote is a human, but it is not the same as killing the adult human that the zygote would grow to become. Zygote is likely to become a real living human being (especially considering modern health care), so that being said, regardless of when life begins, killing a sperm cell that has fertilized the egg is essentially the same as killing a human. Therefore, destroying a grey box is not the same as murdering a sentient being. > If Bob (a fetus) was aborted before it became sentient, Bob never existed and Bob was never murdered since identity and personhood can only exist in sentient beings. You are saying that a grey box has the same value/worth as a feeling/thinking being. Non-sentient beings cannot have any intrinsic worth because there is nothing there to have any values about anything. 2) There is a difference between killing a non-sentient being and a sentient being. If I had the potential to steal from you but the actual occurrence of it never occurred because of X reason, you could not say that I actually stole from you simply because I had the potential of doing so. > 1) Potentiality is different than actuality. ![]() You cannot say it is likely when miscarriages happen - 10 to 20% of known pregnancies and an unknown amount occur before pregnancy is known.
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