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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
Again, I think your views may clarify a great deal when you've been pregnant or are trying to get pregnant. Like it or not, there is a hypocrisy to it and you do feel different. Ask the any number of women who spent their 20s desperately trying not to get pregnant (and more likely than not had an episode or two of the "oh my god, what if I'm...??" panic attacks or even may have had an abortion) but then spent the better part of the their 30s trying to conceive. Your mindset is different, it is "your baby" in the latter scenario, it's an "oh my god, what will this do to my life/career/family/relationship/financial stability problem" in the first scenario. There, I said it. Bring it.
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But for me this suggest that maybe we should approach the issue assuming that all pregnancies are "babies" rather than that the mom's feelings somehow actually changes the reality.
Although it's easier to go with a let each-judge-on-her-own stance, it doesn't actually work that way. Either the fetuses/babies are people who at some point in pregnancy should be invested with legal rights or they aren't. Other circumstances should no more play in than they would if we were talking about newborns or tumors, depending or how you view the products of conception.
For me, the idea thing would be to have a developmental line beyond which the life of the fetus/baby is protected and only when the same standard of self-defense is met as we'd use outside the womb, can the mom terminate the pregnancy past that point. Up until that point, the mother could do whatever she wanted.
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