What is your stance on abortion?
You need to understand how human reproduction works. A life that didn't exist (before the woman got…
If you were plugged into a machine without consent that uses your body to give life support to a stranger (the stranger is in this scenario also innocent; someone else did this), you would have the right to stop giving life support, which would result in the death of the stranger. But abortion is different than just stopping to give life support. Abortion would be the equivalent of assaulting the innocent stranger to death.
@VulcanMan6 6mos6MO
You can unplug yourself from a machine without touching the stranger (presumably), but abortion does not have that luxury; that is why these kind of hypothetical analogies can only go so far as a comparison for pregnancy. Ultimately, if the only way to end this hypothetical situation was to personally kill the stranger that you are hooked up to, then yes, I would consider that a valid and justified means of defending your autonomy that is being violated. Of course it is unfortunate that someone else had to put the stranger into that situation where neither of you had a say to begin with, but that still doesn't detract from your own right of bodily autonomy. Violating your consent is still violating your consent, regardless of who did it or why, and although the stranger is not guilty of putting themselves into that situation, they areRead more
