Do you remember being in the womb? Being born? Does anyone? Had I been aborted, I'd have never known it.honorentheos wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:01 pmFreedom of choice arguments have long acknowledged there is a point where the decision to terminate a pregnancy is more impactful than a form of contraception. It would be damaging to reduce the argument to this degree. There is no abortion debate without a debate regarding personhood and when the developing human should be seen as a person which, by definition grants them rights that would be even scarier to reject, in fact more in line with Justice Thomas' position.
It's not that simple.
Does one fetus, that may or may not come to biological self-reliance, have more rights than potentially several live conscious people who can actually consider their personal situation and what would be best for everyone affected by the prospect of this fetus being born?
I go back to my home-invader analogy. If you invite someone over, the expectation is that you aren't going to shoot them. They are a guest, not a home-invader. You hope and expect your guests will behave themselves, and it's generally a positive experience.
But if someone comes into your home and threaten your lives, we all understand that isn't cool, and we don't have to put up with it. Thankfully, it doesn't happen that often, but it would be ridiculous to expect that nobody would defend themselves in this situation.
For some women, in certain situations (like a pregnancy from rape), this is a pretty apt analogy. Feeling threatened is feeling threatened.