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Sorry, i just don't get it.


I did support it...that and the fact that there are no federal laws or federal court decisions that recognize rights for the unborn. Now, where are your sources that prove me wrong? This is what, the 5th time I've asked?

And the DOI isnt a legal document. But if it was, and all 'men' are created equal, then why did we have to pass amendments and precedents to ensure equal rights for blacks and women? And now...where is that for the unborn. Again...source it.
 
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If you are going by the current legal guidelines, then the mere fact that there is a fetus in your womb does not rise to the level of imminent threat to life.
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I wasnt referring to pregnancy with that post.
 

Basically yes but I was arguing the argument presented. However I never consider or refer to the unborn that way.

I value the unborn, but I value all born people more.

lwf said:
I am arguing the point because I am debating a pro-life person who believes that the unborn are humans with rights, and I am accepting this premise for the sake of argument. IF the unborn are humans and do have rights, then...
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Rights are a man-made concept and as such, must be recognized legally...that's really the only focus to take on rights. Any imagined philosophical or religious 'rights' are personal and people are welcome to them as long as they dont try to force their belief on women that dont believe the same.


 
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You are correct. My analogy implies that the unborn is a human with the right to life. If you do not believe this, then the analogy doesn't work.
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It doesn't work anyway you slice it:

The unborn are analogous to the car not "they", you said it best yourself: "Riding in a vehicle...".

"They" is analogous to the probabilities of her having a fatal crash/pregnancy.

She not need to "kill" anything or anybody.

It was spurious nonsense.
 
Your jealousy of my country of my FREE country is apparent. At least we aren't shooting each other let, right and centre.

I did identify the law Section 223 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
 
I have taken the same tack to show that a consistent pro-life position would be inhumane toward the woman. It is utterly unreasonable to force pregnant rape victims to continue pregnancies. It is analogous to forcing women who are being raped to have to endure the continuation of the rape instead of using lethal force to get the rapist's thing out of her sex organs. These anti-abortion people are themselves rapists. They have no moral high ground no matter what they say, because if they're consistent, they're rapists, and if they're humane, their inconsistent. It's a bad philosophical position.
 
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That is not the wording of Part C of 1 US s 8.
 
You would be in favor of forcing pregnancy on women if it were 100% safe? Why?
 
Agreed.
 
The analogy was whether she had the right to kill other drivers due to the risk of being involved in a fatal crash. The risk of this is comparable to the risk of dying during childbirth, so if you are using self-defense as a legal argument to justify abortion, then it doesn't work. 99.99% of women are never in danger of dying from the condition of being pregnant. Just like 99.99% of drivers are never in danger of dying from driving on the highway. That it is technically a statistical risk is not a justification for homicide in self-defense.

If you argue that women are justified in having abortions in the name of self-defense, then you are changing the definition of self-defense to suit your argument. This is equivocation.
 
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You would be in favor of forcing pregnancy on women if it were 100% safe? Why?
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no . . .i said if this was fantasy world and if it was 100% ZERO risk and just like now the women would be forced take on those burdens against her will and could use adoption, safe havens etc
YES . . i could be open to that idea but first id want our failed foster system totally reformed.

so what would be needed is:
the fantasy of ZERO risk (teleportation and artificial womb)
and legally and ZERO requirements on the woman
and our failed foster system totally reformed

in that fantasy world i could be because why not . . . it removes what my biggest issues is, in that fantasy, nobody has their rights taken away and they arent forced to risk their health/life against their will . . .
but i would still want a foster care system that works, ours doesn't
 
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The analogy was whether she had the right to kill other drivers due to the risk of being involved in a fatal crash.
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Well, that's what you tried to convey. It was just a fail.

Per your analogy, driving the car is analogous to being with child (gestation). Now to eliminate the threat of death from her pregnancy she aborts the fetus and to equally eliminate the fatal threat of a automobile accident she aborts the car (avoids driving the car).
Sure, I understand your risk argument but the random "they" driver is only analogous to random pregnancy complications. She couldn't accurately predict either situation let alone act upon it. Ergo, she justifies her abortion because of the possibility of death; likewise she stops driving her car because of the same possibility.

Her "killing drivers" was classic misdirection.
lwf said:
If you argue that women are justified in having abortions in the name of self-defense, then you are changing the definition of self-defense to suit your argument. This is equivocation.
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No definitions were harmed in the making of this rebuttal.
 
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mac said:
The simple fact that black slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person negates any argument that this is a definition of personhood.
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Black people were not counted as 3/5 of a person... they are listed accurately in census data.
 
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Well, you don't have a right to the fruits of anyone else's labor.
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I like that. So when states insist they have a compelling interest in the unborn...too bad, they arent entitled to the fruits of her labor.

Agreed? If not, why not?

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Please provide a source for that figure.
 
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The simple fact that black slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person negates any argument that this is a definition of personhood.
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You dont understand it, simple or not. Free blacks had rights, had the legal status of persons. The 3/5 reflected the slaves' legal status as property.

It wasnt based on race, it was about legal status. Just like the unborn dont have any federally. (Unless you want to prove where they have any rights recognized but I've asked many times and you failed to produce.)
 
All women are at risk of dying even though 99.+% do not die, because we don't know which women will die, as some die of medically unforeseeable complications. However, the issue of self-defense is not about just your life. Large numbers of women develop serious illnesses or have serious injuries in childbirth and may have irreparable injuries or serious problems that last three months, six months, or years. You have a right to defend your health, as a basic aspect of liberty.
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If you argue that women are justified in having abortions in the name of self-defense, then you are changing the definition of self-defense to suit your argument. This is equivocation.
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The risk is unnecessary to a self-defense argument. At least here in NY, you have a right to self-defense against rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, and felony robbery. Yes, they may threaten your life or health, but that isn't why they are felonies. All people have a right not to have sex with another person and no person has the right to use force to have sex with them without their consent. Ditto kidnapping. The issue is not that you might die, but that this stuff is heinous violation of bodily autonomy and integrity.
 
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In this hypothetical fantasy world, given the above premises, women would have their right to choose taken away.

The choice between chocolate and vanilla ice cream poses zero risk to me. Yet, that doesn't make it ok for someone else to use force to take away that choice just because they happen to dislike chocolate and think that I should not be allowed to eat it.

Just because there would be no risk in your hypothetical scenario doesn't mean we ought to assume the authority to artificially limit choices based on nothing but our own personal whims and our power to do so.
 
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In this hypothetical fantasy world, given the above premises, women would have their right to choose taken away.
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choose what?
i agree
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Just because there would be no risk in your hypothetical scenario doesn't mean we ought to assume the authority to artificially limit choices based on nothing but our own personal whims and our power to do so.
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i agree im glad i didn't do that
 
I think you are the one who is attempting misdirection here. If you want to equate choosing not to take the risk to simply "choosing to stop driving," then the analogous situation would be: "If you want to stop driving your car, then you cannot intentionally kill another driver while you are pulling over to the side of the road under the justification that 'driving is technically a risk, so it was self defense.'"

Having an abortion is the homicide of a human with an equal right to life to the mother in the analogy. Killing other drivers is homicide of another human with an equal right to life as well. When you use self-defense to justify one over the other based on "inherent risk of the activity," you are changing your standards between each scenario to suit your argument. This is equivocation.

If you do not believe that an abortion is the homicide of a human with an equal right to life to the mother, then of course the analogy breaks down. It is a pro-life analogy after all. But the point is: You can't logically believe that the unborn are humans with an equal right to life to the mother and that any abortions outside of an emergency room are justified under the legal doctrine of "self-defense." This is an unsound conclusion. You can't have your cake and eat it to.
 
This is not correct. You do not have the right to kill your rapist or your kidnapper because it is a heinous crime and a violation of your bodily autonomy. You ONLY have the right to kill another human being if you reasonably believe your life is in danger. It is reasonable for a rape victim to believe that his or her life is in danger during the course of the rape. It is reasonable to believe that your life is in danger from the kidnapper who is kicking in your window. It is not self-defense to find our where your rapist or kidnapper lives after the fact and go to their home and kill them, because in that situation is it not reasonable to believe that your life is in danger, and killing them was not the only way to protect your life.

The justification of self-defense requires the reasonable belief that your life is in danger, and that the only way to prevent yourself from dying is by killing your attacker. This is fundamental to the legal doctrine of self-defense.

https://www.okayplayer.com/news/chrystul-kizer-wisconsin-murder-case.html
 

What is the point trying to be made in this conversation? By you, @quip, @choiceone, etc?

Any individual woman is at significant risk...it cant always be predicted or prevented. You also arent including the other 86,000 that suffer extreme harm, even permanent disability...Is that considfered "OK since they're alive?" Things like stroke, kidney failure, aneurysm, pre-eclampsia, ectopic pregnancy, etc. This impacts the rest of their lives and ability to work, care for a family, everything.

So ALL women are at risk for every pregnancy. The only reason the numbers matter is if someone values the unborn more than the women, believing that they are entitled to demand women take that risk. The federal govt does not take that position...and it doesnt in any other circumstances either, except the draft. (Demand someone risk their life without their consent.)

If it's still about self-defense, it's not "IMO." It's about bodily autonomy and having your body used without your consent, about sacrificing your right to self-determination in order to give it to someone else without your consent. Since there is a safer medical procedure available, the govt nor strangers should have the right to deny a woman that procedure.
 
In case you hadn't noticed, this is 2022 and maternal deaths are rising.
 
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