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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).
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You surmise correctly -- I have never kayaked in bilmore's amniotic fluid.
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Originally posted by nononono
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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Well, we limit what people can do with their bodies, but -- by and large -- we don't force them affirmatively to do something risky with their bodies against their will.
It's a very difficult issue. I don't know what the answer is, other than to note that there would probably be a lot fewer abortions if there was more to most sex ed classes than "abstinence makes the heart grow fonder."
