This_person
Well-Known Member
Puggy, that's quite a "slippery slope" argument - if abortions are allowed c-sections could be ordered by doctors working on behalf of fetuses? Come on......Ok now that I have a second to get my thoughts out pretty much this is how I feel about fetal rights.
Two people cannot have equal legal rights over the same body.
In doing such you are allowing the government to control pregnant woman from conception to the birth. If anything happens in between be it miscarriage or still birth...well now you have a potential murder investigation on your hands? Could you ever imagine having a miscarriage then being subjugated to a criminal investigation?
You may say highly unlikely but why give a fetus the same legal rights if they are not entitled to the same rights as a born person?
Further more comes all the new rules and regulations that pregnant woman are expected to follow now add the fear of being charged with child abuse for drinking caffeine, eating sushi, any of the current no-nos of the week. Next it will be forced c-sections. Currently childbirth is not treated as a natural event. You need a doctor or you could hurt your baby. Women are trained to fear the natural even of having a baby. If a fetus has full rights and a doctor wants you to have a c-section well guess what? S/he could get a court injunction forcing this decision on you!!!
Giving a z/e/f legal rights will do nothing more than allow women to be further policed and have no control over their medical decisions.
The argument is whether it's okay for a woman (or, as the thread started, a child) to decide if they can kill someone out of convinience, not whether or not the mom would be forced to forego her medical rights.
However, if any unborn is the same, than 8 months 29 days 23.5 hours of gestation would, legally, be the same as 24 hours gestation. So, induce labor, and suck the brains out while still in the birthing canal would be exactly the same as suction in the first trimester. By the argument of "my body, my choice", there should be no reasonable difference, right?