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How many of the 64+ million abortions would fit into those categories though. And if you won’t accept the bright lines, which circular-reasoning-based line will you adopt?
It's possible to argue that a *legal* bright line works because edge cases are so rare that the practical outcome is desirable. But in that case, you're favoring a somewhat more nuanced rule; you're just not stating it explicitly because you don't know precisely what it is.
The risk is that you end up underestimating and/or avoiding evidence of edge cases because it messes with your bright line, and you don't really know where to go from there.
Don't want to get into my personal opinion on abortion, nor do I think I have the expertise required to write the law, but I don't believe that a zygote should be considered a person at conception & I don't believe that bodily autonomy is a right that always supersedes all others
It strikes me as odd though. Those edge cases are shots in the dark. There’s a very real possibility that they represent a tragic miscalculation. It seems odd to just pick a line, heartbeat, pain, brain activity, and be at peace.
Yep, because most of us have something we care about in fetal development that isn't "technically alive + biologically human" or "bodily autonomy," but we also don't know *precisely* how to describe it (and even if we did, medically evaluating such things is a work in progress)
That’s fair. Most thoughtful pro-choicers seem to accept that rationale, that it’s impossible to know for certain when personhood or life begins, so they pick a standard that assuages their own worries/guilt about those “edge cases.”
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— I have to believe bright-liners are just signaling. Nobody of sound mind would rush into a burning fertility clinic to rescue the embryos rather than the staff/patients, nor consider it fine for a woman to induce at 24 weeks & birth a disabled child just to be done with it.