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Originally Posted by nittanyalum
I am curious as to how you then propose those mothers and children are cared for and their health care paid for. Because until you can answer that, you can't impose it.
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But this isn't really the legal standard that we use is it?
We don't let mothers of newborns elect to kill them because they decided at that time they didn't want to provide or couldn't provide for them. Why would it make such a big legal difference that her decision to terminate took place two weeks before birth? (Or however many weeks back we need to go for it to really be an issue.)
I agree that it's a really uncomfortable issue and I understand why it's easier to take a let-every-woman-make-the-best-decision-for-herself stand. But it might actually be wrong and be resulting in the murder every year of thousands of beings better regarded as people.
On a different note, I don't think taking the first breath as a legal standard for personhood is one most people are comfortable with. It certainly doesn't seem to be behind the laws that charge people with two counts of murder or manslaughter when they kill a pregnant woman. I think it would also creep the vast majority of people out to terminate pregnancy in the last month but just making sure not to allow the fetus/baby to breath air would make it okay.
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