10. Should it be legal for a woman to undergo a procedure to give her fetus (before 3 months) facial piercings, such as a nose ring or snake bites? Assume it's engineered to naturally expand as the fetus grows.
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11. Should it be legal for a woman to undergo a procedure to tattoo the name of her favorite TV show onto her fetus (before 3 months)?
- Yes8.4%
- No91.6%
3,082 votesFinal results
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12. Should it be legal for a woman to undergo a medical procedure that will not immediately kill the fetus, but will cause the fetus to die after 12 more months of growth?
- Yes10.3%
- No89.7%
2,965 votesFinal results
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13. Should it be legal for a woman to place ultrasound images of the fetus (before 3 months) onto niche fetish sites for people's sexual satisfaction?
- Yes36.3%
- No63.7%
3,131 votesFinal results
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14. Should it be legal for a pregnant woman to undergo an elaborate satanic ritual where dozens of people focus as much emotional energy as they can towards possessing the fetus with the antichrist? (Before 3 months)
- Yes74.8%
- No25.2%
3,059 votesFinal results
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15. Should it be legal for a pregnant woman to sign a contract stipulating that she is selling the soul of her fetus for $10? (before 3 months)
- Yes64.1%
- No35.9%
2,978 votesFinal results
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16. Should it be legal for a pregnant woman to genetically engineer her fetus (before 3 months) to have moderate-severity autism when it grows up?
- Yes8.8%
- No91.2%
2,920 votesFinal results
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17. Should it be legal for a pregnant woman to genetically engineer her fetus (before 3 months) to be transgender when it grows up?
- Yes8.9%
- No91.1%
2,927 votesFinal results
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18. Should it be legal for a pregnant woman to genetically engineer her fetus (before 3 months) to have schizophrenia when it grows up?
- Yes4.7%
- No95.3%
2,944 votesFinal results
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19. Should it be legal for a pregnant woman to genetically engineer her fetus (before 3 months) to be extremely nice when it grows up, to the point of hyper-agreeableness, pushover passivity?
- Yes12.8%
- No87.2%
3,120 votesFinal results
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20. Should it be legal for a pregnant woman to genetically engineer her fetus (before 3 months) to have a high probability of being significantly dedicated to the mother, working to support her and putting her needs above its own, when it grows up?
- Yes12%
- No88%
3,136 votesFinal results
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I think the big issue here for me is whether the foetus is killed (and thus never becomes a person) or if the foetus is expected to become a person (who might suffer from these choices). I don't care about the rights of foetuses, but I do care about future people.
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Fetuses are future people, though. Leave’em alone and they do just fine.
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Technically a foetus is property and the mother can engineer it however the fuck she wants. I will absolutely vote consistently on this issue.
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Do you expect an answer for all these? I think some of them assume too much of genetics, but even if you’re heavily weighted on the nature side (as problematic as that is) why would one assume that modification technology would only be significant when it comes to genetic mods?
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My moral framework on this is as follows: abortion is okay, things that can be expected to improve the future child's quality of life or not meaningfully affect it are also fine. Making modifications that would harm the child and then giving birth is a crime against the child.
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21. A pregnant woman has a hormonal condition that causes the fetus to undergo unusual amounts of brain development in the first 3 months and have 10 more IQ points than normal. Should it be legal for her to take drugs to suppress this effect?
- Yes28.9%
- No71.1%
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Wow this one went weird places really quickly. The amputation one fucked with me a bit. I've never thought about abortion in any way other than a black and white removal of pregnancy tbh.
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For many of these questions I would reframe in terms of what kinds of services physicians are permitted to provide, which might best be decided on by a transparent and democratically accountable board of regulators who have detailed understandings of the issues involved.
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Most of these are in the form of “is it moral to plant a bomb that won’t go off immediately” since the harm only occurs once it’s worthy of moral consideration