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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's arguably the difference between a woman being allowed to dictate the fate of her children in potentiae versus an outsider inflicting that decision on you against your will by violent means.

Or to put it another way, it's the difference between saying abortion should be illegal, yet still making it illegal for me to go around trying to abort all of my neighbor's kids with my secret portable abortion kit. I mean, the theoretical kit, that I certainly don't keep hidden beneath a floorboard along with my plague doctor disguise. Because I would never do such a thing and you certainly can't prove otherwise.

But yeah, all-or-nothing legal systems almost universally suck, because context is a thing and it absolutely needs to be taken into account by any fair or just system.

Which might be an argument if not for the fact it involves a third-party. You either acknowledge that the child is a person or you don't. It's not 2/5s or 3/5s of a person. The idea behind viewing it as a murder is that the child is a person, it has nothing to do with the mother's ownership.

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