http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/09/23/misogynist-grandstanding-a-right-wing-perennial/ Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues. Tue, 22 May 2012 19:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/09/23/misogynist-grandstanding-a-right-wing-perennial/comment-page-1/#comment-431898 Lauren Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:07:10 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2009/09/23/misogynist-grandstanding-a-right-wing-perennial/#comment-431898 Just a recommendation: before you spout off about abortion, how about you pick of a basic biology book, flip over to the section of reproduction and take a good read. You'll note that the choice of abortion is not a choice of a woman doing something to her own body but it's the choice to end the life of someone else's body. I could care less about what a woman chooses to do with her own body - she can hack away at any cell or group of cells that bear her own genetic nametag. Whatever she wants to do to her OWN body that's fine. However, the unborn has his or her own genetic nametag, aka DNA, that is not the mother's and thus not her body. By the time a woman has an abortion the kid's heart is already beating - yeah, not the mother's heart...the kid's. What about the kid's autonomy? What if the kid is a woman - that impedes women's rights, interests, and choices. No criteria for saying the unborn is not a person would apply in any other situation - size, level of dependency, level of development, environment, consciousness, etc. make a living human any less of a person. By those criteria even a newborn is not a person. OH LOOK was that a religious and irrational argument? No. It was, oh my, logical and scientific. Yeah, us pro-lifers support choice, just not limitless choice, and support autonomy - be we include that of the child. Just a recommendation: before you spout off about abortion, how about you pick of a basic biology book, flip over to the section of reproduction and take a good read. You’ll note that the choice of abortion is not a choice of a woman doing something to her own body but it’s the choice to end the life of someone else’s body. I could care less about what a woman chooses to do with her own body – she can hack away at any cell or group of cells that bear her own genetic nametag. Whatever she wants to do to her OWN body that’s fine. However, the unborn has his or her own genetic nametag, aka DNA, that is not the mother’s and thus not her body. By the time a woman has an abortion the kid’s heart is already beating – yeah, not the mother’s heart…the kid’s. What about the kid’s autonomy? What if the kid is a woman – that impedes women’s rights, interests, and choices. No criteria for saying the unborn is not a person would apply in any other situation – size, level of dependency, level of development, environment, consciousness, etc. make a living human any less of a person. By those criteria even a newborn is not a person. OH LOOK was that a religious and irrational argument? No. It was, oh my, logical and scientific. Yeah, us pro-lifers support choice, just not limitless choice, and support autonomy – be we include that of the child.

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