IamThunderbolt
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To continue this train of thought, what other legal restrictions would you like to put on pregnant women re; their own bodies, and when do you think those restrictions should begin?
Honestly, this is a nonsensical question that talks past the other side. No one (I don't think) is talking about limiting what one can do with their own body, the disagreement is about whether the unborn fetus is part of a woman's body, and at what point it ceases to becomes so, so putting it's more about putting limits on what one can do to another body (and when that distinction occurs). Some have viability as the benchmark, others heartbeat/receptivity to pain, others conception, apparently for some it's birth. That's the whole crux of the argument. To couch the discussion as reproductive rights assumes a position of personhood that not all accept. This is where the discussion has to happen, what happens to an aborted fetus has no bearing on the morality or legality of the abortion.
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