Slimebeast on 15 July 2013
| Runa216 said: Until a child is born, a baby is just a parasite. A bit extreme, but a woman should have a right to do whatever the fuck she wants with her body. If that means getting rid of something she doesn't want leeching off her body and making her life a living hell, then she has that right. She also has the right to keep it. Her body, her decision. And besides, I know humans tend to be very attached to other humans (it's our social nature that helped us evolve and become the dominant species on the planet), but objectively an unborn fetus is as much 'human' as a wad of cancer cells. It has no memories, it has no history, it has no personality, it's just a mass of cells leeching off the mother. It can become a person, but while it's still a fetus, it's just a mass of cells. |
When you are asleep and unconscious you could say you're just a mass of cells too.
You have the potential to wake up, have a future and experience being a person, but so does the unborn human.
"Her body" is a weak argument in itself. With that argumentation, if you ignore the interests and rights of the other person (the unborn), you could ignore taking care of your seven year old child or ten year old child and nobody could charge you or blame you because you would just say "it's my body, I never promised anything to this seven year old leech, so one day I decided to stop taking care of it and then it just died lol".
