Comment on Abortion Rights: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

• cricket98@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So a person only magically becomes a human when they get born? What about the birth process makes them any more or less human?

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  • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The consent of the mother to bring it to term is the only thing that matters.

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  • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. It’s a distinction we draw based on nature and it’s vitally important to have that distinction. Comparing fetuses to people who are disabled; etc. are false equivalencies because they’ve already been born and thus already have those rights. Birth is the quintessential start of life.

    But we both know you’re never going to accept that because you want to subjugate women and deny them happiness, and that’s all this is really about.

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    • cricket98@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Birth is the quintessential start of life.

      This is an almost religious claim with no empirical evidence backing it.

      But we both know you’re never going to accept that because you want to subjugate women and deny them happiness, and that’s all this is really about.

      You have really been sold a narrative haven’t you. I just think killing babies because you don’t want them is bad. That’s pretty much the extent of it.

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