[PUG] Human Rights for Embryos?
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Child Protective Services worker: "Ma'am, we've received a report of possible abuse/neglect of the zygote residing here. I'll need to step inside your uterus for a brief walkthrough."
for future reference I never read the linked content when someone just posts a link. Ive always thought that was a form of trolling.
for future reference, when someone refuses to read a link from a safe source, I consider it a form of trolling.
"Contragestion is the prevention of implantation of the blastocyst, or a device or substance which can effect such prevention as a means of birth control. Other birth control methods include contraception, which prevents fertilization, and abortion, the removal or expulsion of a fetus or embryo from the uterus). Contragestives include intrauterine devices placed inside the uterus and some forms of hormonal "emergency contraception"
I have difficulty with both extremes. To say that a two-celled organizm is a person is an assault on common sense. BUT to say that nacient human life is no different from a tooth, is just as ridiculous. I guess what I'm saying is that developing human life is its OWN category -- it really isn't analogous to anything else.
What if society operated in a way where if you didnt want whats growing in your womb then you could abort it and all you had to do was live with whatever feelings that action left you with? Similarly if you wanted what was in your womb you could keep it and live with those consequences? Men didnt get a say in the matter: if she keeps it it is likely you are a good catch, if not you are probably a shitty mate.
Did I just blow your mind conservatives?
Did I just blow your mind conservatives?
Ugh.. I have! Barbara Kingsolver messed with my mind. I read that book right on the heels of Prodigal Summer, and was expecting something earthy and humorous and slightly hippieish, and instead got dark and depressed. Creepy indeed.
Technically, a human corpse is human. It has all the genetic material for being human. I don't think a corpse though should necessarily get "human rights".
These funny word games that people play with this issue are rather sad. Semantics is not how to approach an issue as serious as terminating a pregnancy. All this talk about when "life" begins and who is and is not a "person" is ridiculous.
Corpses do have certain rights in a way. Their earthly goods go to where they want them to go (generally) and they get buried/cremated/whatever the way they want (generally). Some are even frozen for later or they donate their bodies to science and are treated very respectfully in my experience. Also if you rape one you get in trouble with the law.
I always wonder why eggs are considered a dairy by some people. When you eat an egg, you're eating a fetus.