Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

• NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, I don’t see how they can see it so black and white if they don’t consider a firtilized egg to be a full living human.

  I think anything else would necessitate conceding that it’s a complicated issue, with lots of grey area, which I don’t think any forced-birther I’ve talked to has conceded.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t kill the fertilized eggs! Unless the brown person carrying them doesn’t believe the way you want them to believe. Then go nuts.

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• cricket98@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They definitely are beyond a “fertilized egg” multiple months into a pregnancy. And yes, they are humans, just at the early stage. You think a baby magically becomes human when it leaves the womb?

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  • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you actually looked at a fetus in different stages of growth? Because they’re not sentient, and not all that human-looking even. Just a parasite that may, one day, be a human.

    If you mean super-late-stage, then at that point the abortion is a health issue, and you and your uninformed opinions getting in the way only cause more risk of death for the mother.

    And what about ectopic pregnancy? Please don’t tell me you’re dumb enough to believe those are salvageable. If that happens, and an abortion isn’t carried out ASAP, they’re fatal.

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    • cricket98@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So would you be okay outlawing abortion after 25 weeks (when it very much does look like a baby) assuming there are no health risk to the mother?

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      • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, because health complications can always develop. Instead I’m going to leave it to the mother and her doctors to decide, since they’re the person who is putting their body at risk and professionals who know what they’re doing.

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope, after birth it is no longer dependant on the direct use of another person’s body in order to live.

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