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View submission: A defense of abortion: bodily integrity, responsibility, and deprivation
Likewise, we should also conclude that abortions should be legal because the fetus, while it is a person with a right to life, does not have the right to use the mother’s body.
I don't get this part. I'm still thinking through the argument but that part definitely feels wrong to me. If a mother gets pregnant willingly, how is that not grounds for the right of the fetus to override her right to bodily autonomy?
Comment by [deleted] at 21/01/2020 at 17:34 UTC*
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Comment by jay520 at 21/01/2020 at 17:36 UTC
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I mention later in the post that one objection to the analogies used at the point of your quote is that women are usually responsible for their pregnancies, unlike the violinist thought experiment and McFall v. Shimp. However, I later argue that the responsibility objection is not relevant because conceiving a child and then aborting it does not on net deprive the child of a life that they would have otherwise had. Nevertheless, at the point of your quote, the analogies should at least show that abortions for pregnancies due to rape should be legal, which is a necessary first step.