lymelady
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The problem with 'granting' personhood to a foetus would mean that abortion would be legalised murder. Wouldn't that be a problem?
I thought that the argument was women have the right to their own bodily domain, NOT a fetus isn't a person so it's okay to kill it?
Yeah, that was my thought as well. I'm sure there are Pro-Choicers who believe otherwise, but for
me the only thing that makes abortion legal (and makes illegalizing abortion without some immedient alternative - fetal transplant and/or artificial wombs - unethical) is that the woman has control of her own body.
I'd like to mention that there
are times when one
can legally kill a person, in self defence, in times of war, when it is ruled to be unavoidable (like when someone runs out right in front of your car and you have no time to stop). And there
are laws against killing non-legal-persons, animal abuse laws, hunting regulations, and such.
Heck, there are even times when unlawfully killing a legal person isn't murder, in the case of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter (of different degrees), I think. Or war crimes are different from murder, I'm pretty sure.
Not to mention "legal murder" is sort of an oxymoron, since murder (in the legal sense of the word) is defined to be illegal.
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