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I think I am very unusual in the sense that I believe abortions should be tax-paid, free to everyone, and pregnancy tests should also be free.... BUT I also think abortion should be very limited, to something around the first **10 weeks** at most.
I've had both right and left leaning folks loose their shit over that. Always entertaining
@freemo From that perspective, would you be willing to share why you believe something that might become an independent living being is more important to protect than someone who is already an independent living being?
@TammyGentzel @freemo None of us is really independent. But you mean something specific that I'm glossing over, right? Can you nail it down?
@ech Maybe you can help me find a better adjective. Someone who is pregnant is at some level currently and actively contributing to society (an independent human). Their social connectivity exists and is complex. My question is, and always has been, why is that person’s life less important than something that might someday be a part of our social connectivity but is not now part of it and, due to the realities of spontaneous abortions and unviable pregnancies, quite possibly never will be?
I think it would be kind of hard to find someone that thinks someone's life is less important because of their level of "social connectivity or whether they're actively contributing to society. Either would be ghastly.
@TammyGentzel (who's arguing the mother is less important?)
But whatever – why are people arguing that it is *as* important, you mean?
I think it's because, as we agreed, using those things to ascribe value is ghastly?
@ech Agreed. It IS abhorrant.
The fetus is not yet a person, not yet capable of living without a host,and will not be either until it is birthed. Yet, there are those who would protect the fetus over the person and argue the person’s life is less important than the fetus’s potential. Why?