• GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world
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    Some people don’t get that this could mean aborting an early first pregnancy might have left the person better able financially to have more children later in life. Not recovering from the first pregnancy could be what led to subsequent ones being aborted.

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    Why would this young lady put her body through 3 abortions though? We have contraceptives lol

    I don’t see how lousy decision making can be used as bragging rights but I guess I’m the minority here

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      Some people are trying to conceave but something happens and the body rejects the fetus resulting in a natural abortion.

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      1. Se is not bragging

      2. Some people have bad reactons to contraceptives

      3. They do not always work, I have friends that got pregnant on contraceptives (IUD, the pill…)

      4. “This young lady” makes you sound like a condescending neckbeard

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        So just keep getting pregnant and keep aborting? If don’t want kids then why not get the permanent procedure done or better yet, have your guy get a vasectomy?

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    I got into an argument once with my dad about abortion. And he told me “You know, you should be totally against abortion. You’d not exist if I managed to convince your mom to abort you.” As an argument to limit abortion access.

    Obviously a fucked up thing to say to your own kid, but also it kind of was like: I wouldn’t give a shit if you had, I wouldn’t exist essentially. Kind of wish you’d convinced her TBH.

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      At one point, somehow the topic of abortion came up while my father was visiting me from the other side of the country. I basically said that I have zero tolerance for anti-choice sentiment and he kept trying to argue with me about it, and I told him eventually that that sort of talk wasn’t welcome in my house.

      He tried to “win” me over by saying that I wouldn’t be here if my parents believed in abortion (my mother is actually pro-choice just would never abort herself, but I didn’t get into that). I told him that would be fine. I would never have even known that I didn’t exist.

      I know that is the common response, but it’s true, and it also actually shut him up. That and I think he believed me when I told him that he would not be welcome back in my house if he continued that kind of talk.

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        If it was alive and then isn’t, it is dead. That’s what dead means. A fetus that died in the womb is still dead, and died, and there is no other way to define what unborn is than to describe it as a previously living entity; thus dead.

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          Do people talk about tumors as “alive” and “dead” before and after it’s been removed.

          The problem is defining when human life begins. It’s generally accepted that before 12 weeks, it’s not alive. After that it gets more gray.

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            Chemo is taken with the purpose of killing cancer cells without removing them. People talk about parts of tumors with living cells as alive, and part of tumors that have dead cells (whether through strangling their own blood supply, or chemo, or whatever) as dead.

            The language of “when life begins” is using a specific and unusual definition of “life”, that I think has more to do with the concept of a soul than with any of the more common definitions of “life”.

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            That’s insane to me. The fetus has entirely different DNA than the host organism, thus is a separate life. That’s just biology, any other argument and you’re getting into weird psudo-science territory trying to measure souls and consciousness.

            I mean, if that’s how the broader medical community wants to frame it, that’s fine. I know a lot of the discourse around this subject is really rooted in abortion, and whether abortion is okay or not, and so people gotta do what they gotta do to justify their position.

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              But it’s still alive and can still die regardless of anyone’s opinions, a bacteria can be alive and then dead. The grey area is when that life becomes ethically problematic to end.

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              I’m fine with saying its a living human while still arguing that killing it is justified as self defense for the person carrying. Cracks me up with pro lifers say killing instead of murder for that reason, and I usually tell them I’m glad they use that term

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                100%. Most “pro-lifers” would be okay with kicking someone out of your house even if it means they would die. Not to mention your own body.

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        A fetus is only a potential person, but it’s still a living organism. After it’s aborted, it’s dead.

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              Parasite: an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host.


              Children, pets, several co-workers, and all of my exes fit this definition.

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            I don’t think “it can’t continue living on its own” is a good measure of whether or not something is alive or a separate organism. Even after birth a baby human can’t “continue living on its own” without being provided for. A parasitic creature can’t “continue living on its own” without a host. A severely injured person can’t “continue living on its own” without life support. Pretty easy argument for even a stupid forced-birther to deconstruct.

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            This does not actually refute the claim that the fetus would be dead. I’m not actually sure if you’re contesting anything.

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                Do you think women are conceiving intern minerals in their womb? What is this question xD I’m going to assume you’re having a laugh, because by every metric a fetus is alive. If those cells are multiplying, consuming various stuff to continue multiplying; the fetus is alive. If the fetus, removed from its source of food, dies; it must be alive. If you removed me from all sources of food, I too would die.

                If you have a compelling argument, I’d love to hear it though.

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            True, but only due to current technology. With an artificial womb it would eventually develop into a person, unlike, say, an organ.

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              I mean, with cloning technology any cells could develop into a person. Doesn’t mean we should count my hand as a separate living thing.

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                A fetus is considerably further along than just a random cell. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to make a distinction there.

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                  A hand is also further along than a random cell. I don’t see the distinction as significant, if we’re already handwaving the details to the “future technology”

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    This is like the Batman refusing to kill killers thing but better cause it involves unprotected sex, my favorite kind.

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      Once a woman gave me a blowjob then, immediately after, asked me if it upset me that she was essentially eating my children.

      I have nothing to add to this story.