⚠️ nuclear hot take on parenthood, kind of a thought experiment ⚠️
Is procreation, and for that matter the adoption of beings too young to consent, essentially a kidnap situation? 🤔
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This thought experiment brought to you by an internet rando comparing abortion to leaving someone so badly injured they need life support, and then cutting off that life support.
And I'm like
did u just compare conception to beating someone up senseless, like that is so awful and illogical but also a breathtakingly galaxy-brain take that fascinates me in the epic twists and turns it takes to arrive at the awful conclusion, like getting to New Jersey via Alpha Centauri.
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@ljwrites legally (in the US at least, tho as far as i’m aware this is near-universal) if someone needs blood, or bone marrow, or a liver transplant or whatever and i am the only person in the entire world who can give it to them…i still get a choice about whether or not i want to donate part of my body to save their life. in fact, we think this right to bodily integrity is so important that it applies to dead people! being convicted of a crime does not (and very much should not) erase this right either
so if you take their comparison at face value, it actually favors legal and easily accessible abortions
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@Satsuma Yeah even accepting for the sake of argument the extremely ill-thought-out take that having an egg fertilized = near-deadly violence, the remedy to that in legal systems is paying damages or (in incarceral systems) jail time etc., not forced organ donation or blood donation.
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@ljwrites i do think this argument is incredibly telling of the authors underlying beliefs though—in order for the comparison to be relevant you have to accept that:
— that sex is morally wrong
— morally wrong acts should always be crimes, and therefore deserve punishment through the legal system
— that women’s rights to bodily integrity can/should be taken away
— that violence is an appropriate retribution for a crime
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@Satsuma yuuup basically the classic "sex wrong and women evil" thing with more steps.