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Another way of looking at abortion…[W:290]

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Oxymoron comment.

Did you know that my neighbor is pregnant?

Ahhh, so you understood me then. Don't speak fluent onxymoronish, myself, unfortunately. Just took a shot at what might be the native tongue. Not much the debatable response except, as you probably could not know, that comment/statement makes perfect sense in the world of reality.

Oh, about your neighbor, of course.

Lets see I can work my charms one more time, see if this one also works: You seem such the nice and logical liberal...

...oh wait, heck, that isn't an oxymoron at all, that's more a simple contradiction in terms. My bad.
 
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It is important to understand that
Roe vs Wade is not a law.
It is a SC decision that held that state abortion laws violate the Due process clause in the fourteenth amendment,
which protects individuals against state action that infringes on their right to privacy.

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Therefore any state laws that prohibit abortions outside of the parameters of Roe vs Wade are unconstitutional.

For the moment... only for the moment.

All that is really necessary is for another Supreme Court to overrule that poorly decided decision [ which WAS, in effect, legislating from the bench, which IS, itself, unConstitutional ]. See Plessy v Ferguson ...replaced by Brown v Board.
 
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Only for the moment...in your dreams.
The right to privacy has been around since the 1890s.
The right to reproductive privacy 48 years and that was extended to abortion 40 years ago.

The right to privacy has been reaffirmed by the Supreme Court many times in last century plus.
 
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Ahhh, so you understood me then. Don't speak fluent onxymoronish, myself, unfortunately. Just took a shot at what might be the native tongue. Not much the debatable response except, as you probably could not know, that comment/statement makes perfect sense in the world of reality.

Oh, about your neighbor, of course.

Lets see I can work my charms one more time, see if this one also works: You seem such the nice and logical liberal...

...oh wait, heck, that isn't an oxymoron at all, that's more a simple contradiction in terms. My bad.

Well, you're not doing too well.

First...you can't believe women should have full rights to manage their bodies and reproduction...and at the same time call them murders if they have an abortion.

Second... Sorry...you don't know my neighbor...or whether or not she's pregnant. And if she is indeed pregnant...you wouldn't know what her plans might be as to whether or not she'll abort or bring it to full term.

Third...political philosophies have nothing to do with abortion and I don't consider myself to be liberal or conservative. I consider myself to be a "free thinker" who doesn't depend on political/religious dogma to rule my thinking or life.
 
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Anyway between 2005 and 2008 the numbers of abortions in the USA went down 8 percent.
Between 2008 and 2009 ( the latest data available ) the numbers fell 5 percent which was the biggest reduction since they first started keeping abortion records in 1960.

With more and more women who are in their child bearing years opting to use long term birth control abortions really will be rare in the near future.
 
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Well, you're not doing too well.

First...you can't believe women should have full rights to manage their bodies and reproduction...and at the same time call them murders if they have an abortion.

Second... Sorry...you don't know my neighbor...or whether or not she's pregnant. And if she is indeed pregnant...you wouldn't know what her plans might be as to whether or not she'll abort or bring it to full term.

Third...political philosophies have nothing to do with abortion and I don't consider myself to be liberal or conservative. I consider myself to be a "free thinker" who doesn't depend on political/religious dogma to rule my thinking or life.

Doing great actually, especially compared to the competition...then there is that nice sweet breeze coming in with the rain...

1. Yeah, kinda like that, not if they are not in their right mind, not if they are going to murder their own living kin, no. I think that type plan to be far from optimal, not even really close to adequate...yes again, I am not here to candy coat it for you...
2. Yeah, and so why even ask? Didn't I go for the bait properly? I would hope, if she exists, she would do the right thing, for her and her baby, both having life... and I wish her [ cause to add to what I don't know is even if your neighbor is actually female or if you even have any neighbors ] and her baby if she is expecting, well.
3. Sounds a little chaotic/anarchic in there...so you just make it up as you go along constantly reinventing the wheel, huh?
 
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Doing great actually, especially compared to the competition...then there is that nice sweet breeze coming in with the rain...

1. Yeah, kinda like that, not if they are not in their right mind, not if they are going to murder their own living kin, no. I think that type plan to be far from optimal, not even really close to adequate...yes again, I am not here to candy coat it for you...
2. Yeah, and so why even ask? Didn't I go for the bait properly? I would hope, if she exists, she would do the right thing, for her and her baby, both having life... and I wish her [ cause to add to what I don't know is even if your neighbor is actually female or if you even have any neighbors ] and her baby if she is expecting, well.
3. Sounds a little chaotic/anarchic in there...so you just make it up as you go along constantly reinventing the wheel, huh?

So in reality...you don't believe women should have full rights. In other words...you've been dishonest.

It wasn't a bait...it was an illustration that there are millions of pregnant women, which you don't have a clue about.

If you've allowed yourself to fall prey to political philosophies and religion...that's your problem.
 
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So in reality...you don't believe women should have full rights. In other words...you've been dishonest.

Completely empirically, illustratively illogical my dear. I think women, though different, should be equal to men...men who I also do not believe should be able to murder their own kin and get away with it, would call them murderers too, I might add. What would you call them?

Solved that misrepresentation easily enough, eh? ... got anything else up your sleeve, do you? BTW, Is it dishonest to call somebody else dishonest when you know they were not being dishonest?

It wasn't a bait...it was an illustration that there are millions of pregnant women, which you don't have a clue about.

Oh, omg, yeah, I live in a country with approximate 310 Million fellow citizens, at least half being female... and had never guessed that there were pregnant women existing out here with me, all around me, right here in the very same country... wow, would you not consider that statement just a little hysterical on your part? How could I not know when there are, on average, just in abortions, much less total pregnancies, One Million 250 thousand abortions per year... now might you call what you did right there to be hedging on the honesty thing again, maybe?

If you've allowed yourself to fall prey to political philosophies and religion...that's your problem.

I do not find it a problem, when/if I do I resolve it by finding the better way. I do know that I am not so arrogant as to dismiss thousands of years of written history, religion, philosophy and political science and start making it all up myself. That would be like tossing the baby out with the bath water, which one should be remiss in....oh, oh yeah, that's right, who cares about those babies anyhow? Matter of fact, they might-should-a been thrown out way way earlier, right?
 
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Completely empirically, illustratively illogical my dear. I think women, though different, should be equal to men...men who I also do not believe should be able to murder their own kin and get away with it, would call them murderers too, I might add. What would you call them?

Solved that misrepresentation easily enough, eh? ... got anything else up your sleeve, do you? BTW, Is it dishonest to call somebody else dishonest when you know they were not being dishonest?



Oh, omg, yeah, I live in a country with approximate 310 Million fellow citizens, at least half being female... and had never guessed that there were pregnant women existing out here with me, all around me, right here in the very same country... wow, would you not consider that statement just a little hysterical on your part? How could I not know when there are, on average, just in abortions, much less total pregnancies, One Million 250 thousand abortions per year... now might you call what you did right there to be hedging on the honesty thing again, maybe?



I do not find it a problem, when/if I do I resolve it by finding the better way. I do know that I am not so arrogant as to dismiss thousands of years of written history, religion, philosophy and political science and start making it all up myself. That would be like tossing the baby out with the bath water, which one should be remiss in....oh, oh yeah, that's right, who cares about those babies anyhow? Matter of fact, they might-should-a been thrown out way way earlier, right?

You are anti-women's rights. You are wrong about the current number of abortions. If you have reached your beliefs regarding abortion based on your religion...good. I could care less. However, imposing such beliefs on others...and in particular...women. Is indeed discrimination and against women's rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and self-determination.

And NO...I don't care about the decisions women make to terminate their pregnancies...it's none of my business...just like it's none of yours.
 
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There is no reason to care much when abortion on-demand exists to end an unwanted pregnancy.

To those with a conscience—with a well-developed sense of good and evil—that is more than enough reason to care.

Unfortunately, our society is producing too many who lack that conscience.
 
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Pregnancy is an extreme circumstance.

No, not at all. It is a perfectly normal and natural condition, which a woman's body is specifically evolved to support. It is the process by which the human race continues to exist.
 
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You are anti-women's rights. You are wrong about the current number of abortions. If you have reached your beliefs regarding abortion based on your religion...good. I could care less. However, imposing such beliefs on others...and in particular...women. Is indeed discrimination and against women's rights to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and self-determination.

Its been exactly 40 years into over 50 million abortions, so that averages the One Million 250 thousand abortions per year that I indicated previously. Haven't a care whether you are going to acknowledge the truth or not... your fictions are not my problem. So, if I am for equal rights between men and women, that makes me anti-women's rights, does it? No, it doesn't, at all...nor even close...that statement of yours, however, certainly identifies you clearly as an abject female chauvinist though.

Listen lady, we live in a country with laws, you don't get to always just have your way, even if individually you are making it up as you go. Right now the law is not going my way, at least not for the first trimester or so... I am not out being violent about it, I am doing what those in the minority position ought do, use our minority rights to fight to become the majority... and when we do, you folks are going to have to obey the laws too... or suffer the consequences. Society, including men, will impose its will... and its punishments, whether you like it or not. But this haughty superiority, needs a bit of a wake up call. Gone are the times when you can just say whatever you want and expect to wriggle away without sustaining major hits to such a vapid and failed philosophy.


And NO...I don't care about the decisions women make to terminate their pregnancies...it's none of my business...just like it's none of yours.

Murder, especially of the most innocent, helpless and voiceless, is society's business, and being a part of society and wanting it, society, to continue and prosper, we will make whatever it is we decide, as a society, our business should we damn well please.
 
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It is remarkable that so many people think abortion is such a terrible crime and yet neither God nor Christ is reported in the Bible to say a single word against voluntary abortion. They do not at any point clearly make voluntary abortion a crime. If abortion were so terrible, you'd think they would have bothered to mention it.

Exodus 20:13 — Four words, no more than that are needed. “Thou shalt not kill.” It's one of the Ten Commandments, the very most basic and essential of all God's commandments.
 
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Its been exactly 40 years into over 50 million abortions, so that averages the One Million 250 thousand abortions per year that I indicated previously. Haven't a care whether you are going to acknowledge the truth or not... your fictions are not my problem. So, if I am for equal rights between men and women, that makes me anti-women's rights, does it? No, it doesn't, at all...nor even close...that statement of yours, however, certainly identifies you clearly as an abject female chauvinist though.

Listen lady, we live in a country with laws, you don't get to always just have your way, even if individually you are making it up as you go. Right now the law is not going my way, at least not for the first trimester or so... I am not out being violent about it, I am doing what those in the minority position ought do, use our minority rights to fight to become the majority... and when we do, you folks are going to have to obey the laws too... or suffer the consequences. Society, including men, will impose its will... and its punishments, whether you like it or not. But this haughty superiority, needs a bit of a wake up call. Gone are the times when you can just say whatever you want and expect to wriggle away without sustaining major hits to such a vapid and failed philosophy.




Murder, especially of the most innocent, helpless and voiceless, is society's business, and being a part of society and wanting it, society, to continue and prosper, we will make whatever it is we decide, as a society, our business should we damn well please.

Your OPINION is noted. I disagree with most all of your opinions.
 
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You have avoided the fact that the usual liberal position on capital punishment is against [ pro life ] whereas in cases of abortion you are for [pro death]. That, ol chap, is hypocrisy. We are not hypocrites in the fact that we are only pro innocent life.

Well, “pro” any “life” that isn't guilty of a sufficiently-serious crime to warrant capital punishment. I don't think any of us are “pro-death” with regard to petty thieves, or other minor criminals.
 
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I'm not a liberal according to american partisanship. The reason I'm against the death penalty is because it's a barbaric idea.
The reason I'm pro-abortion is because I truly do believe people can make up their minds as to how they want their lives to work out.

But the person whose life is affected (ended, actually) is not the one who is allowed the freedom to make that choice.

Abortion is a far more barbaric practice than capital punishment as practiced in this country. The victim of an abortion has had no opportunity to commit any crime, and is not given any proper due process, before being killed. No trial, no defense.


So taking that option away from them is stupid. Before we can worry about taking rights away from the unborn, lets make sure that the living are free.

The unborn are living.
 
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I found this statement on Facebook earlier today…

Pro-choicers claim that: “Abortion is no big deal. It is a simple five-minute procedure.” Well…Imagine that a baby is about to be aborted, but instead of doing it inside the womb the child is taken out live and placed on a table. The, the arms are pulled off, the legs are pulled off, the chest is crushed, the skull is collapsed causing the brains to pour out, etc. There will also be a heart monitor hooked up to the child so we can see his heart race as this ex-uterine abortion begins. The only difference between this abortion and the others happening today is that this one is going to be shown live on national television. The question is, would the public's reaction to what they saw be swayed by the fact that it only took five minutes?

I think he makes a very good point, here.

How is it different to kill a child while he is still in the womb, than to remove him from the womb and then kill him in otherwise the same exact manner?

I think the answer has to be obvious to anyone who still has a conscience, that there is no difference. Either way, it is the same thing, with the same result.

How is it morally worse to kill an unformed, nonviable fetus growing in a woman's body against ther will that can't breath or (probably*) even think than removing a tumor? God (if you believe) made the tumor and it is made of (anamolous) human cells. Who are we to say that the tumor doesn't have a right to live?

How is it morally worse to kill an unformed, nonviable fetus growing in a woman's body against ther will that can't breath or (probably*) even think than killing the fully alive goat that gave you milk and mowed your lawn?

*depending on stage of development
 
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But the person whose life is affected (ended, actually) is not the one who is allowed the freedom to make that choice.

Abortion is a far more barbaric practice than capital punishment as practiced in this country. The victim of an abortion has had no opportunity to commit any crime, and is not given any proper due process, before being killed. No trial, no defense.




The unborn are living.

The unborn will NEVER MISS NOT doing all the things you described because they dont know that those things exist. In fact, they don't even know that they, themselves, exist.
 
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Well, “pro” any “life” that isn't guilty of a sufficiently-serious crime to warrant capital punishment. I don't think any of us are “pro-death” with regard to petty thieves, or other minor criminals.

Yes, capital punishment is only given for capital crimes, i.e., first degree/premeditated murder, or treason, or espionage, etc...

And so, no, I would agree, no petty thieves etc...
 
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Dude, maybe need to check for a higher diopter on those reading glasses... just proved the overwhelming hypocrisy of your approach/stance, being beyond being simply hypocritical. But if I am talking out my arse, it appears the toothless wonder speaks only truth. I know that must stink for you, tho.

Not in the stone age, ol chap. You would have to be quite the salesman to get me to want me to trade modern America for the contemporary collapsing European dystopia. No No Noo thanks. You can keep it, you folks over there made your own social hell all on your own, now it appears you are just gonna have to live in/with it.

We pretty much have that situation now, that you speak of, with abortion being legal. We, too many of us, are trying to follow the lousy liberal lead you are promoting from over there. But we can see, in real time, your collapse occurring... why would we ever want that? On the other hand, if we go back to making murdering unborn children illegal, like we should, females will resume their strong roles in choosing better, more reliable males as life mates... instead of lying down with the smoothest talking scum just because its fun [ coarsens the female nature, is injurious to the spirit and sends a wrong message to guys who would otherwise be decent and worthy but now must compete with the scum for nearly universally lower class females] as well as their being the great nurturers of the planet. Why not allow women that dignity again?

Once a premeditated murderer has consciously taken away the chance of someone else to live their full life [ and, by the way, any chance of their victim to their own chance to redeem themselves, if necessary], then society owes convicted capital criminals nothing, absolutely nothing. That people would be so misaligned in their sympathies as to be supporting the murderers over and against the innocent... speaks volumes about the modern pseudo-intelligence obtained through the liberal educational systems. Logic seems a thing of the past and what is current is this nonsensical consensus emoting... in mass. Scary.

I am all for women having freedoms, which they surely enjoy here in this great country. I am not for giving them the right to walk around free after they commit premeditated murder on their very own children. Not hardly. That is just slow societal suicide. We are not blind to the razor being put to Europe's own once profuse bloodlines.

Oh dear. You really walk in double planes don't you? The financial problems in the EU have nothing to do with abortion. The social problems also have nothing to do with abortion, but with immigrants from Africa and the ME and to some lesser extend, asia. There is no problem stemming out of the fact that abortions are legal, except maybe, a higher quality of life for all concerned. I am not a pro-EU person, but if you know nothing on the subject then don't start talking about it because your blabbering nonsense makes the rest of us, who actually to know stuff about the EU and dislike it, look bad by association.

Now.

As to what women do. Condoms are widely popular as the #1 method of contraception. Works 99.9% of the time. So that people can have sex whenever they want with whomever they want if they are consenting adults. For a pro-freedom conservative, you sure do like to make a lot of restrictions on people. Sure, risky sexual behavior is not something to be encouraged but the stupidest possible way to discourage risky sexual behavior is to ban abortions. There is no dumber way.

Now. Since you are so keen on no abortions lets branch out a bit and start digging deeper on more than just a superficial level. SO lets advance our dialogue because otherwise, we're getting nowhere.

1.What if the child was to be born with severe malformations or mental handicaps? Would you agree that if a woman/family doesn't want to raise a handicaped child, they should be allowed to have an abortion? I am pro abortions so I think yes.

2. What if the mothers' life was in danger? The woman goes to the doctor, he says that there are high risks of her dying while giving birth even if they did c-section. Odds are, mother dies. Would you agree to an abortion in that case? Should they be legal? I am pro abortions, so I think yes.

3. What if the woman/family has 3 kids already and they can barely feed them and clothe them as it is. Having another one would end up with the family/mother living in the worst possible neighborhood in the crappiest city in the USA (so Detroit). Would you agree to an abortion then? Again, I say yes, but I am for abortions to be legal.

Now, answer those 3 quizzes for me pls so we can move forward with the dialogue. And since we did decide to delve in a bit more, lets round up what I think of abortion on what my stance is on it.

I am for abortions for children over 18. Under 18, you need parental approval and also a police to be present and note how that happened... maybe put someone in prison for corruption of minors. I also think that abortions should be legal until the 3-4month period. After you enter your 4th month, abortions shouldn't be legal except in extraordinary circumstances because yes, after the 4th month the child is starting to have many traits that we can observe as human. He starts forming a skeleton... he has fingerprints, and soon enough he will start to develop brain functions. So abortions until the 4th month, legal, afterwards, illegal except in special cases.

What special cases?
-well, the case at #1. If you find out your child has severe problems (Down Syndrome), you should be allowed to have an abortion regardless of how far along the pregnancy is.. .maybe not the 1-2 months before but certainly after the 4month period I stated earlier.

-well, the case at #2. If after a medical consult, the doctor says that birth may be fatal for the mother.. then by all means, abortion should be legal past the 4th month I stated earlier.

Case #3 I presented, no. It doesn't fly there.

You will find that this is pretty much how abortion laws are made in many European countries. Now I am no doctor, the 4month term I gave is something I picked up from how it is according to the laws of some European countries ( I think this was in Austria, but can't be sure). Looked at the reasoning... made sense.

So anyway. Answer the #1, #2, and #3 and we can carry on the discussion from there.
 
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I have NO intention of manipulating it so... so what is your point? I am a pro lifer with the idea that we should all be equal, not overly macho, not overly feminist. And how does my viewpoint make pregnancy sexist? Its naturally occurring this way, I have no say about that and so the sexism either exists in nature or....what?

Not being "overly feminist"???

The word "feminism" is defined in the first entry at dictionary.reference.com/browse/feminism as:

1.the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.

So feminisim means gender equality, and you either support gender equality or you do not. If you have the right to control over your sex organs, the right not to have your sex organs controlled by the government, and the right not to have your sex organs violated by any persons against your will, then women should have exactly the same rights, and if they do, then no zygote, blastocyst, embryo, or fetus has the right to be inside a woman's sex organs without her consent whether or not it is a person. In nature, women do have the right to abort their pregnancies.
 
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The unborn will NEVER MISS NOT doing all the things you described because they dont know that those things exist. In fact, they don't even know that they, themselves, exist.

Neither does a neonate; let us know when you are advocating for legal infanticide so you might actually be making a point rather than directly contradicting yourself.
 
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You do have that right… no doubt, in those situations. I confess I have seen you try this before… and you see, the facts are different, very different. It’s simply not the same, not truly analogous at all.

Babies are not legally insane, first off.

Second, If you invite someone to have sex with you, you simply cannot call it rape, if they are sane or not. The one you created had nothing do to with your decision or the decision of the partner to all this. So, the baby is not violating any rights. She/he was for all intents and purposes, invited. In 99% of the cases where an abortion is sought, the females chose to engage in an act that, by its very nature, is meant to lead to pregnancy. So, that was a choice, for women 99% of the time, for the men 100% of the time.

Maybe a more analogous situation might be if you were to slip a drug to a person, an aphrodisiac. They had no idea beforehand, had no intentions at all… but then then they raped you because they had no control over the situation. It was your fault…not theirs in any way shape or form.

Yes, that is a better analogy, not perfect, but certainly closer.

To repeat, then, until the brain of a fetus is adequately developed, it is legally incompetent, and therefore lacking in the legal sanity/competence to know whether it is doing right or wrong or what it is doing. In that sense, if an embryo or pre-viable fetus were put on trial for sexually violating a woman, it would be found not guilty. and like a person known to have been legally insane or incompetent at the time his/her body part was in a woman against her will, it would not even be prosecuted. Nonetheless, the woman could have an abortion for exactly the same reason that she and a third party defending her could use deadly force to get the body part of a legally insane rapist out of her body. and that would be in both cases justifiable homicide.

Consent to sex is not an invitation to pregnancy. When you agree to have sex with someone, only that particular someone can put a body part inside your body, and his friends, siblings, and born children do not get to do it also. Furthermore, if you agree only for that particular someone to put a particular body part inside a particular part of your body, even that particular someone can't put a different body part inside you or any body part in a different part of your body. If the zygote/blastocyst/embryo is a person, albeit legally incompetent/insane, and it has not received consent to pregnancy beforehand, if the woman says she wants it out, she has the right to have it out. If the zygote/blastocyst/embryo is not a person, it is part of her body and she has the right to do what she wants with it.

The woman did not invite pregnancy. The sex act is not, by its nature, meant to lead to pregnancy, because on average it takes 21 acts of unprotected sex to get pregnant. If the act were meant by its nature to lead to pregnancy, it would have to result in pregnancy at least 51% of the time.

I'm not saying the man raped the woman. I'm saying that, if the woman did not consent to a particular zygote~fetus's being inside her body and a zygote~fetus is a unique person with rights equal to all other persons, then if the woman does not change her mind and consent without anyone putting any pressure on her choice, that zygote~fetus is no different from a legally insane rapist. You can argue that the zygote~fetus has no intent. If the government bans abortion, the government itself becomes the rapist and the zygote~fetus becomes the object it is using to rape the woman.
 
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