From: stacksatsio<-Dere... at 07/08 11:02
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> Used to be unthinkingly pro-choice. Nowadays honestly I’m not sure and don’t have a firm opinion.
> I’d be devastated if my girlfriend had an abortion, but I acknowledge I would be just as devastated if
> she was raped and had to carry it. The only answer for me is to keep the State out of ALL healthcare so
> there is no finger on the scale, let people decide what is right for them and their circumstances.
The problem with that view is that we have not figured out when human rights are conferred upon an unborn child; and the state has a definite responsibility to protect those rights. It is absurd to suggest that those rights are conferred at the moment of birth since birth is not an instantaneous moment but a rather long process. Does it make sense to say that there are no rights prior to the chord cut but all rights exist thereafter?
Personally, I think ~16 weeks ought to be the cutoff. After that rights are assumed to be provisional and you should have to get several doctors, a judge, and both parents (if possible) involved in the decision to abridge those rights.
I'd put a second cutoff at ~25 weeks as a proxy for viability. Once "viable" rights are assumed to be fully conferred.
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