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[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I share your frustration with using mobile. Also I must commend you on staying pretty consistent. There's a lot of abortion opponents that come unglued at the thought of something like forced blood or organ donation. Though I disagree with your opinion, this is a rare case where the issue was almost fully boiled down to a difference of opinions. I'll change course a tad.

No doubt you agree with the right to privacy and I'm sure you'd have some exceptions (probable cause to search and stuff like that). If a doctor considers it medically necessary to abort citing life of the mother as being in danger, how would you reconcile allowing the government to overrule that? What other areas should the government overrule licensed and practicing professionals in their area of expertise? How would you reconcile the right to medical privacy? After all the government would need to know it was a medically necessary operation rather than some reason you oppose. What other medical information should the government have access to without your consent? Surely you could also see that would be rife for abuse (don't hire the woman on fertility drugs as she's likely going to be pregnant soon).

In some other comments you'd mentioned you'd think at some point in the pregnancy it would transition from fetus to person. What obligations would the government need to adhere to once the fetus is considered a person? Consider a pregnant woman fasting in an effort to induce a miscarriage. No doubt you'd expect government involvement if a parent decided to just stop feeding their already born child. Would you support an extreme like force feeding a woman in an effort to preserve the "person"? Forced c-section once deemed viable? If you don't support that extreme, where do you draw the line and is that consistent with where you draw the line for already born people?

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