theotherjacob wrote...
How is it not part of her body? This mass of cells at any given point before the birth of the child relies solely on the female body for it's survival. It can not survive outside of the womb (with techology exception). It is unable to breath, feed, or even think as it develops. It is increasingly at risk from all forms of virus and deseases only protected by the female body. This set of cells isn't even able to digest it's own food and requires food to be pre-digested.
Anything that is unable to survive without a host is part of that host by definition.
I only need to point to Roe v. Wade for this argument.
Yes, and I fundamentally disagree with Roe V Wade as a premise. Indeed, you have the right to your own body but the body of the fetus belongs to that fetus specifically. If we take this logic to it's logical conclusion, then a minor's life is subject to its caretakers up until the age of 21.
In other words, I contend that a parent could murder a pre-teen, a teenager or even a toddler. After all, without the parent that child cannot feed, cannot cloth him/herself, cannot schedule his or her own doctoral appointments. Quite literally, the only thing an adolescent can do without a parent is wake and sleep.
Perhaps, at best, the adolescent learns how to cook. But as far as getting a job? Part-time jobs aren't very lucrative and as I said regarding Economics: The minimum wage is legal slavery to U.S. workers. How a Democrat can even support this, is honestly beyond me.
Employment does NOT equal opportunity, only meaningful employment with good wages,
benefits, etc is the sort of opportunity that should be afforded to a law abiding
American Citizen. For that matter, to all citizens of the world.
So even at best, the 16-18 year old can't get the proper food or nutrition or
a home, or anything.
If Roe V Wade says a woman has a right to decide the well being of her dependent,
then that should carry through all the way to adulthood. The only difference between the fetus and the developing human life is that the human who happened to escape this 21st century death trap is now walking on his/her own two legs.
TheotherJacob wrote...
If the fetus is not a part of the womans body, than it is sufficient to say that the fetus should be unable to harm the female body since it is not a part of the female body but this is not the case and many women have died from pregnancy.
Case in point, Doe v. Bolton.
To even put it out there for how it works in canada, I only need to point to R. v. Morgentaler which determined that restricting abortion was a violation of the canadain charter of rights and freedoms.
This is another utterly intellectual incorrect interpretation. The fetus itself
did not harm the mother, we acknowledge that the fetus itself isn't even conscious and therefore isn't even capable of bodily harm! In medical terms, we call this
"complications due to pregnancy". In other words, it's an indirect result of the fetus's actions but by no means is the fetus responsible nor does it have any intent on doing so.
We cannot and should not punish a fetus for pregnancy complications, except where its dangerous to both the health of the baby and the mother. In other words, where I've stated countless times: I support these so-called Medical Abortions(5-10-15% at best the statistics are consistent that this is the rate of such incidences) rape, incest, etc.
Of course, there's some generally Liberal groups that cry out that there may yet "be some group of women whose hiding and doesn't want to come out" to which its utterly laughable and not even scientifically possible. For after all, a high percentage of women who did answer, answered that they aborted due to financial reasons.
So, where are these hidden women going to come from? Precisely. No where.
Abortion shouldn't be viewed as a get out of jail free card, and mothers do not have the right to predetermine whether an independent life(which just so happens to need codependence) should live or die or not. The fact that these justices have ruled the opposite of an intellectual standpoint, shows how little value I have in these clowns and their meaningless profession.
Literally, this brings up what Fiery said among other things of "The right to a jury of your peers". At first I thought this was a right, then I looked at how the jury panel decided life and death(example: The Jodi Arias case) and I'm purely convinced that:
To make our "Justice System" better, we need people in jury who actually A: Know the Law or B: Have experience in the relative fields necessary. Psychology, autopsy, etc. Doctors, etc. We need a jury that can deliberate properly on the arguments of the prosecution and the defense and at least more times than not can actually make the truly correct call.
A jury of one's peers is a laughable joke, in which unqualified people make important and crucial decisions.
TheotherJacob wrote...
The court ruled that the Criminal Code violated women’s rights because “forcing a woman, by threat of criminal sanction, to carry a fetus to term unless she meets certain criteria unrelated to her own priorities and aspirations, is a profound interference with a woman’s body and thus a violation of security of the person”
Here I disagree with the Court: A: If the case in question was through consensual
sex, then at no point was she ever forced much less by criminal sanction to carry
the fetus to term. B: Her "priorities and aspirations" are a mute point to the responsibility she now carries as the caretaker of this child. And that fundamental fact remains so especially if she carries the child to term. For the next 18 years, she is obliged to be the best mother she can possibly be.
She doesn't have a sanctified right over the Fetus in anyway whatsoever, whether
she argues for her rights or in any other way, she cannot proclaim herself God. If she had consensual sex, and unless complications arise she MUST carry it to term.
The argument(and reasoning as I highlighted above) is economic concerns. It's
kind of interesting: The Obama Administration has recently decided to allow a
new type of morning-after-pill to be sold over the counter without a prescription
(for those 15 or younger in particiular). Nevermind the fact that this'll get our
youth addicted to drugs(and leave the way for such restrictions in all areas of life to be argued on a 'constitutional basis'.)
If women have unprecedented access to birth control like never before, they are obliged to use it(after all, they proclaim they can control life for economic reasons). If women have this unprecedented access, and yet have advanced to the point where the fetus has developed, they cannot morally justify abortion.
In other words, there are some laws in Western states that say that after the
First Trimester, it's illegal to have an abortion. I'd make that a National Law.
When she consented to sex, she consented to her responsibilities as a parent.
And she has all of the opportunity in the world within 60-90 days to have an abortion, if she doesn't take that opportunity within its present window, she will now acknowledge her responsibility to the
Human Being living inside of her.
TheotherJacob wrote...
You can't give a fetus it's own rights because that infringes on a womans right to autonomy, which if given that status goes against the fundemental principles of biomedical ethics.
And a woman's "rights" infringes on the autonomy of the Fetus. I'm not Joseph Stalin, I will never make an argument to butchering children on the account of an adult who happens to live today, precisely BECAUSE her mother didn't infringe on her rights. Ironic, isn't it?
A woman and a Fetus share the same body, therefore the same rights and obligations. If a woman were to take actions that would endanger(or outright eliminate the fetus) in non-harmful situations, she is abusing her right as caretaker and acting as a Demi-God for her own personal interests.
It's no different from murder between two standing, conscious humans. It's actually worse: The victim, in this case has absolutely no cause for recourse or defense, it can only be helplessly slaughtered.
TheotherJacob wrote...
To force a women into pregnancy and force her to keep it against her will, is to force her into slavery for the duration of 9 months, in which the child is taken away from the parent. All of which violate the UN charter of rights and freedoms.
Slavery, to whom? To the Father, whom in most cases is isolated by the state and charged with child ailmony? Nah, probably not. Slavery to the Government? Not necessarily, the only reason for there to be a law to uphold the sanctity of the fetus's life, is precisely BECAUSE the fetus is being violated.
If there's consensual sex, then the woman also consented to being a mother(if it makes you feel any better, the man also consented to being a father). Also, I love
how malicious the pro-choice side can be to butcher a child and then to say that
by taking away the 'right' to murdering a fetus, I'm taking away the child?
Seriously? Your the one advocating for it's death! In what way is the child being
taken away from the mother? The only one denying the mother the right to her children is herself by form of abortion.
TheotherJacob wrote...
This would also be a direct violation of the american bill of rights, enshrined in the constitution by the founding fathers in the form of: freedom from cruel and unusual punishments and excessive bail.
You cannot stretch the constitution to fit your flimsy and intellectual and lawful deficiencies. Firstly, pregnancy is not a cruel or an unusual punishment in any way shape or form. If anything is a cruel punishment, it's robbing a man's rights to see his children and then taking away money, no more like coercing him to pay money.
If there's a form of cruel or unusual punishment, it is that the father doesn't
have a right to say whatsoever in the abortion practice, either for or against the baby.
In violating her own womb, and violating her own child's life, the cruel and unusual punishment is being inflicted by the mother(and by the third party) onto the baby's life.
Ironically enough, I cannot see anything in our current state of affairs that
would constitute as cruel or unfair against women.
TheotherJacob wrote...
Madison himself when he made amendments to the constitution said
The exceptions here or elsewhere in the constitution, made in favor of particular rights, shall not be so construed as to diminish the just importance of other rights retained by the people; or as to enlarge the powers delegated by the constitution; but either as actual limitations of such powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution.
[quote="TheotherJacob"]This can only mean one thing, you can not, for any reason, deminish the rights of any individual enshrined in the constitution. This would be exactly one of those cases.
Actually, no. This can be far better construed to my argument. Since you cannot diminish the rights of any individual enshrined in the constitution, you cannot legislate that because a fetus "is not yet a human"(even though it obviously is), the woman has the right to play god or not.
In other words: Woman> Child=No. Woman=Child=Yes.
All life is enshrined in the consitution, to make this fit your definition you would have to literally say a fetus is not a life. And if that's true, then all humans at one point weren't alive.
If this were Umineko, this would qualify as a Logic Error.
We all were unconscious at our starting point of development, but even in our
unconscious state we were still very much alive.
TheotherJacob wrote...
Even the second bill of rights as proposed by presedent roosevelt states that the people should
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health
TheotherJacob wrote...
If the fetus threatens the life of a woman it would immediately violate this, denying her the right to enjoy good health, and we all know that pregnant women already do not maintain and enjoy good health. They become chemically imbalanced due to the fetus, and often become nausiated, etc. They would then have the right to adequate medical care for this, that would include abortion.
Yes, and no. It would only include abortion when and only when the complications of pregnancy threaten the life of the mother and the fetus. The right to abortion doesn't violate her "right to enjoy good health". While there are natural non-lethal complications of pregnancy, there's plenty of non-lethal medications to address those conditions.
TLDR for you: Abortion isn't a necessity in safe medical care for healthy pregnancies. It's but an alternative option when all else fails and when there is clearly lethal and life threatening danger.
TheotherJacob wrote...
So I have to turn to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Article 3: †¢
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Security of person is important here, as well as liberty. This gives the person a choice of pregnancy if they so choose. Failing to allow them a choice would deny them of secuity of person and liberty.
I took the liberty(pun intended) of highlighting everyone for you. I'm sure by now(having read my response above) as to why. The Fetus is not excluded from society, it is not excluded nor is it individual from the woman's body.
A woman's "security" cannot come at consequence of the fetus's security. Failing to "allow them a choice" in this case, is due to the fact that there isn't a choice. Just as there isn't a lawful choice of murder between two conscious beings.
She is in fact, primarily responsible for the fetus's security. If she cites economic security, then she should have gotten the abortion at a time period before the fetus developed. IE: Within the First Trimester.
And if she can't make a decision within 1-3 months that's just unfortunate for her. With a fetus fully engaged in it's development, it has that same right to its own security.
TheOtherJacob wrote...
Article 4: †¢No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Forcing a woman into pregnancy is slavery, even if for a period of time. You are subjegating that women to your own will. Again violating the declaration of human rights.
I already debunked this false argument of yours a few paragraphs earlier, it's very unfortunate to take the same argument twice. But I'll deal it some more crushing blows if I have to, Erika Furudo style :D
As I stated earlier, as long as the woman consented to sex, she consented to her responsibilities in parenthood. The Government upholding the sanctity of the fetus's life is only filling in the role of the "parent" who has chosen to abandon her responsibilities for her own selfish desires.
As you yourself acknowledge, the fetus has no voice for itself for its own rights and security, which is cruel. And as I define earlier: We were all fetuses, we weren't "dead", we were alive but we weren't conscious.
However, here's two new angles to attack this false theory, I'm so going to enjoy
making them.
If a woman has the right to slaughter a developing life in the name of her own
"choice", it's no different then subjugating the child to slavery.
In other words, what choice does the fetus have? How can the developing child
argue for the right to its own life, to develop on the planet earth? It can't. This is most certainly cruel and inhumane slavery.
As I mentioned earlier and I've verified that a child up to his adult's years
are entirely dependent. A child is also restricted in many ways by age laws.
If restriction is a form of slavery, then a child's living with its parents is in of itself slavery.
The evolutionary link between child-adolescent-adult cannot be broken, nor can the link between child and parent be broken. To defeat my argument for Humanism, you'd have to break one or both of these absolutes.
You'd have to disprove that children grow into adults, and that there's a connection between a parent and a child.
Not even adoption families can qualify as truly breaking the absolute. In that
case, the "caretaker" takes the same responsibilities and fills the same role
TheotherJacob wrote...
Article 5: †¢No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Pregnancy causes sickness, bodily imbalances and in some cases risks of death.
And we've already implied that if a woman engages in consensual sex, she conceded to her pregnancy. We've also confirmed that abortion isn't a necessity but an
option in the case that a pregnancy deteriorates and threatens the life of both
the woman and the child.
Can you please stop making the same arguments? It gets tiring to debunk them with logic. A woman who has engaged in consensual sex, is not being subjected to torture, or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and especially not punishment obviously.
TheotherJacob wrote...
And of course Article 30: †¢ Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
Which basicly says what the constitution says, you can not deny anyone of thier right for any reason whatsoever. Doing so would class you as a human rights violator, in which you then have a right to adiquate trial before persecussion.
Good, because we've confirmed that a Fetus is a Human Being, it's just a developing and non conscious one but Human nevertheless. So this ruling, like all of the others you've presented goes far more in my favor than yours.
In addition, if you were to cite this clause for the rights of a female's abortion. What if a male wants to be the father of the child? If a female were to
abort without his consent, she's violating his human rights to be the caretaker of the child.
Weed your way out of my intellectual web, I'd like to see you try ;)