I am pro-choice, but with sadness for the lives lost.
When we say this is MY body, as opposed to the foetus's -- on what
grounds is it MY body? In a very real sense, the foetus assumes
power over the body when a pregnancy begins.
The question of whose body this is, and ought to be, is complex and
hearbreaking, and anyone who's able to take a clear position on it is
almost certainly wrong.
A pregnancy is a fight between two lives: the mother's and the
child's. Bree is right when he says that the foetus is a person (on
what grounds would anyone deny them personhood?) -- but they are
persons unable to defend themselves.
An unwanted pregnancy is a war between two bodies, a fight between
two futures -- like all wars, it ends with a losing, dying side.
When we kill, we kill, and we shouldn't deny it.
The question is: should the losing side have representation? The
answer is surely yes. So the foetus and its representatives have a
right and perhaps a duty to -- say -- make films showing us what
abortion looks like, and what it entails, so that we enter into it
knowingly.
Not all unwanted babies turn out badly. Not all wanted babies turn
out well. Perhaps our desires shouldn't determine who lives and who
dies, because we're not gods. This is the rallying cry of the
anti-war movement -- who are we to take lives? Yet we do it daily,
so long as the lives are those of unwanted children, or other kinds
of people who, for whatever reason, can't defend themselves or make
themselves heard.
Sarah
- Re: Reproductive rights NJC RC sl . m
- Re: Reproductive rights NJC RC Steve Polifka
