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The right to choose the right to choose : Comments
By Natasha Stott Despoja, published 29/9/2005Natasha Stott Despoja argues pregnancy counsellors who won't refer for terminations should advertise the fact.
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Newsroo>I think the differences in our opinion are coming from you thinking it's a human being/life whatever and me feeling that that is inconsequential to the question
The main problem inconsistency on treatment/value of non-persons.
We give personhood rights to post-natal non-persons ie infants severely mentally handicapped and some impaired elderly.
Using current abortion justification we should be able to kill, experiment and use as body banks post natal non-persons in the same way as pre-natal if they aren’t wanted and cause suffering to care givers.
Not only that, extreme late term abortions & experimentation body banks is justifiable and there can be no objection to gender or cosmetic abortions.
Also allows a man who be contributing financial care to kill infants if he is suffering.
>Here’s my real curiosity…how come you prioritise the life of those not yet born over the quality of life of those already here?
Being born is an arbitrary selection criteria no different from race or sex or post natal age.
Let us allow the killing of all unproductive non-person post natals unwanted orphaned infants, say male black babies (since they more likely to turn into criminals) the mentally handicapped and mentally self aware impaired elderly as they don’t contributed to the living and are in fact are either a drain or will be a future drain.
If a human life is only a commodity & valued arbitrarily then at least be consistent on it & use the unwanted post natals like you do the pre natals. The advances we would make from the body banks and experimentation would advance health care immeasurable saving and improving the quality of life for countless human beings.
>Do women contribute that little to the world in general that they are literally only incubators?
If we forced women to have children that did not involve them consenting to sex, then took them away from her just to increase the workforce they could be argued as just incubators.We aren't so no.
Are the responsibilities of parenthood nothing more than glorified 24 hour care givers?