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Originally posted by nononono
But a mother's relationship to her child is not the same as yours and bilmore's (I surmise, without knowing). Not before and not after birth (with some exceptions, of course).
And we do put limits even on people's behavior vis a vis their own bodies (drug use crimes come to mind, legal ages on certain substances, etc.). It doesn't strike me as completely unreasonable that the one exception to "you don't have to save someone" would be this one, if there were going to be one. But I also think it may be useful to separate out abortion on demand, vs. abortion after consideration of interested parties' physical heath. Seems a different analysis to me.
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Your drug analogy is not apropos. Those limits are requiring people to abstain from behavior that may harm them, not requiring people to continue a situation that may harm them. I don't think one can know ahead of time in all cases whether there are going to be complications late in a pregnancy, so considering only the known risks is not really completely on point either.
If the mother truly does not want a child, then the mother's relationship to the fetus/potential child is not that different from bilmore's relationship to Not Bob, it seems to me. How is it different? Merely asserting that there is a difference does not advance your argument.
