When a woman is pregnant with a child:
There are two hearts in her
There are two different DNA makeups
There are 10 extra toes & 10 extra fingers
There is a human being inside her
If a baby has a beating heart, how is it not alive?

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Replying to @charliekirk11
It doesn’t matter if the fetus is human or even if it’s a person. It’s existence doesn’t trump the woman’s bodily autonomy. You’re just making an argument from emotion.
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Replying to @RationalDis @charliekirk11
As a philosophy student I would assert that it does matter if it is a person. If a fetus is as much of a person as a woman, then it could be far more easilly justified that it is worth denying autonomy to one person to save the life of another. I just bite the bullet and say...
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...that fetuses literally have less personhood than humans that carry them. And I will say that with pride: Women have a lot of personhood, fetuses have very little personhood, get better morals if you think otherwise. But "personhood" is, in fact the term used to label things...
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...as having moral worth. Saying that "even if fetuses are people, it's okay to kill them" is to say: "even if fetuses are people, they are not people". This is,
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Replying to @TranshumanCyst @charliekirk11
No, even if a fetus is a person they don’t get to have access to & violate another person’s bodily autonomy. The woman has the right to deny the fetus access to her body. The consequence of that is that the fetus’s body can’t sustain its basic functions & it/they die.
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You can argue that dying access is immoral, but we don’t legislate on morals.
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