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i'm pro-abortion but the results to many (not all!) of these questions make me think we don't *actually* view fetuses as just part of a woman's body.

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Aella

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Oct 29, 2022

Women And Fetuses POLL THREAD (some qs assume futuristic tech capacity) 1: Should it be legal for women to abort/end the life of their fetus before 3 months?

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Do people say they do?

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lots of 'my body, my choice'

5:57 AM · Nov 1, 2022

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i think the premise of that argument is that if you don't want a fetus attached to your uterus, it's your prerogative to have it removed from your uterus the pro-choice argument does not rely on a fetus being considered a part of its mothers body

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i don't think so? like, the argument also really hinges on the fetus just being a cluster of cells, not conscious, etc.; pro-choice ppl generally do not support late-term abortions, which sorta contradicts your quoted premise

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I've always interpreted that phrase as "I get to choose if this fetus can use my body to live," rather than "the fetus is part of my body." Not sure if my interpretation is common, though.

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Expecting people to be consistent every implication of short wide-encompassing principle-slogans is silly anyway, but here particularly, it feels perfectly consistent to say "my oven my rules" but not be allowed to bake rat poison into cookies you intend to feed someone else.

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Yeah that's an obviously ridiculous justification for abortion rights, I wish advocates would use a better one.

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This means "it's *involving* my body so I get a choice as to whether my body is involved," not "the fetus is just part of my body and thus not a person." A subtle but important distinction that these pro lifers explain

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Make no mistake, the confusion about the Bodily Rights View that is illustrated in this meme is a full-fledged catastrophe for the pro-life movement.

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The "my choice" part of that is referring to her choice to allow her body, specifically her womb, to be used as a life support system for another entity. There was never a reasonable argument that the embryo is not a separate entity. Rather than the pregnant women …