Woman with a choice bump.
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On the Renauda-Horace feud, I found this bit, from an essay by 19th-century essayist William Hazlitt called “On the Pleasure of Hating.”
"Nature seems made of antipathies. Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action … Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: Hatred alone is immortal."
As the Slingblade guy would say, "Mm-hmm."
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@lufins-dad said in Woman with a choice bump.:
I just have never understood this argument. It’s not “their bodies”… The fetus has it’s own unique genetic blueprint, separate and different that the mother. It’s not “your body” it’s a completely separate body inside another.
Me neither, and I’m pro-choice.
Though I would slightly change your formulation and say it’s not just their bodies.
@jon-nyc said in Woman with a choice bump.:
@lufins-dad said in Woman with a choice bump.:
I just have never understood this argument. It’s not “their bodies”… The fetus has it’s own unique genetic blueprint, separate and different that the mother. It’s not “your body” it’s a completely separate body inside another.
Me neither, and I’m pro-choice.
Though I would slightly change your formulation and say it’s not just their bodies.
As time passes and science advances, " my body, my choice" is rapidly losing its effectiveness. As you have pointed out, genetics points out that the baby is a unique human in its own right. As such, it inherits those natural rights bestowed upon any other person.
Secondly, the age of in vitro viability has wound its way down to around 22 weeks.
Meet Lyla:
21.5 weeks gestation, 14.4 ounces at birth.
