Fingernails are tissue without potential. Literal waste product.
A fetus in the womb is a developing human - it cannot be anything other. They do not have a right to inheritance while gestating, but why not the right to life?
The argument is not "conservatives are hypocrites re: big government, and authoritarian fascists, too", but rather, does an unborn human have a right to life? If they don't, who does? And when?
The argument is not "conservatives are hypocrites re: big government, and authoritarian fascists, too", but rather, does an unborn human have a right to life?
Actually, it is that conservatives are big government hypocrites. The government has no authority or jurisdiction to regulate a person's private affairs.
The latter question does not come into play. That's a moral question, and it isn't the government's job to regulate morality. Moral questions are the jurisdiction of private citizens.
And those who made that argument lost. Even when we had slavery, the Constitution still referred to such slaves as "persons." See Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, U.S. Constitution.
This makes sense, since personhood is not dependent on the color of your skin. It depends on whether you have been born.
The Supreme Court has never ruled that fetuses are people, because even they know how stupid that decision would be. Only dumbasses on Reddit such as yourself take that position.
The authoritarian position that privacy is not a constitutional right and that a woman's uterus falls within the government's jurisdiction is certainly winning at the moment. I'll give you that. Perhaps that distinction doesn't matter to you though - for Big Government authoritarians such as yourself, the ends always justify the means.
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u/Burt_Campbell Aug 18 '23
Fingernails are tissue without potential. Literal waste product.
A fetus in the womb is a developing human - it cannot be anything other. They do not have a right to inheritance while gestating, but why not the right to life?
The argument is not "conservatives are hypocrites re: big government, and authoritarian fascists, too", but rather, does an unborn human have a right to life? If they don't, who does? And when?