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Originally posted by ltl/fb
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.
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1. That is why I think it is useful to separate situations.
2. A parent's relationship to a child doesn't arise solely (or maybe not much at all) as a result of "want."
