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Let's allow women to CHOOSE to endanger the welfare of their unborn and birthed child/children, because it's THEIR choice, after all. They will not be punished in the least, because of their FREE CHOICE...
At least you got that part right. Here's where you go terribly wrong.....again.
This is not about whether you or I are "right or wrong". As far as I can see, this is about people having very strong opinions about a very serious issue.
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Well hell then: why have any laws at all? Let people who feel it's their "right" to kill someone go ahead and do it...no questions asked, no punishment. Feel you have the right to steal, rob, cheat, drink and drive, destroy property...why not? Hey, you don't like that person because of their color? Beat 'em down, do it all! After all, it's your RIGHT!
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A fetus is not a person and is not entitled to rights.
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My point was strictly made regarding the rights of the mother,
NOT the child/fetus...whatever. I just think it's sad that the unborn child would have to suffer at the hands of someone who claims they care about them. Quite frankly, I don't give a damn
WHAT people want to call it: embryo, zygote, fetus, do-hickey. What I find more important is that a woman has decided to go through with a pregnancy. She's close to her due date, and the doctor says that he highly recommends that she have an emergency c-section in order to save the life of her offspring, and this woman in Utah continued to ignore this recommendation, and it sounds like people just want to throw their hands up and say, "Well, she has a right to make that decision and take that risk".
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If you abort a fetus or otherwise make a decision regarding YOUR OWN body which results in the fetus not continuing it's journy toward becoming a person, you are not committing a crime because a crime only occurs when you have violated the RIGHTS of another person.
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*sighs* Fine and dandy. Then you are free to pay extra taxes for the additional costs for higher health insurance premiums, additional mental and physical healthcare professionals, and so on to take care of the many, many children that *wil* (NOT, "might")l be affected by the mother's free choice.
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YOU are the one arguing with yourself about the whole "the fetus is not a person and has no rights". I don't care about that part of the equation, because it's not the sticking point with me. What IS, however, is that people seem to be satified that the behavior of the mother will be somewhat jusitfied because of her right to behave in such a manner. Oh well....we'll just have to agree to disagree. No one is right..no one is wrong.
*cue Louis Armstrong*
"What a wonderful...world" 