On Abortions
Two different federal circuit courts ruled today that a federal law banning “Partial birth” abortions was unconstitutional because it provided no exception for instances where a woman’s is in danger. The justice department will be appealing the ruling.I was more strongly opposed to abortions before I went to college. We were required to take “diversity courses” These are courses that are designed to introduce you to different perspectives on various subjects. I was introduced to a feminist argument for abortion in one of these classes. The simplified argument is that denying a woman access to an abortion effectively makes her a slave to the fetus inside her. It’s a good argument because it doesn’t require that the fetus have any particular status. It’s also more well thought out than the My Body, My Choice argument, which fails because we don’t let people do whatever they please with their own bodies.
So, if you believe a fetus is a person and support the ban on partial birth abortions even in cases where the woman’s life is in danger, you’d have to be opposed to self-defense as well. I wonder why this argument isn’t the one being presented most often. Maybe it’s too long to fit on a sign.
posted by SumThing @ 11:20 PM
1 Comments:
What I mean by "any particular status" is that the fetus can be a human being, or a collection of cells. Many pro and anti abortion arguments follow the reasoning that because the fetus is a human, or just a collection of cells, it's acceptable/unacceptable to have an abortion.
The argument I mentioned in the post comes after the debate about what the fetus is so you can believe that it's a collection of cells, or a human being and it provides reasons why it's acceptable to abort anyway.
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