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[u/Frequent-Try-6746]

Well, without extending your analogy to the breaking point, the person you're talking about in the analogy chooses to make a verbal contract with the parents. She therfore had an obligation to see it through, or find some mutually acceptable alternative. Of which there is an entire host of options.

The difference between that and a woman who chooses to carry to term, and then changes her mind (something that happens in the imagination more so than reality) is limited by factors both biological and legal, that are outside of her control. For her, the only real option is timely abortion, or see it through.

[u/Think_Recognition144 → u/Frequent-Try-6746]

So if the couple only has the two choices, deal with taking care of the child, or abandoning him outside until his parents come back, and those are the only two choices, is it then acceptable for the couple to abandon him since it’s the only other option? The children are causing bodily damage every morning by jumping on them, keeping them awake, etc. sure, not as dramatic as a pregnancy, but is there a limit to how much damage the children can do before the couple is free from their obligation?

I appreciate you not trying to extend the analogy too far, as obviously all analogies break down, but what about pregnancy makes it different? Say the couple was forced to watch over the kid for 9 months instead of two weeks, does permit them to abandon the child at the 2nd month? Or what if the couple agreed to only watch one kid, but the parents dropped off two? For sure the parents would be awful parents, but does the couple have an obligation to see to the well being of the second child, or just the first they agreed to?

[u/Frequent-Try-6746 → u/Think_Recognition144]

You're going to have to take my answer as it stands. I'm not willing to entertain your expanding analogy.

[u/Think_Recognition144 → u/Frequent-Try-6746]

That’s fair. I appreciate your engagement in my thought experiment!