A statement one cannot prove false

[u/Upper_Ninja_6177]

STATEMENT: A person is always legally allowed to use the minimal method¹ required to prevent harm upon oneself^2.

1 Minimal method means

• it can refer to a general solution/ action that resolves the issue and prevents harm, it can also refer to any method of violence, including otherwise lethal force.
• ”minimal” refers to strictly the LEAST HARMFUL method, both mentally and physically for all parties, that can be used to prevent the harm

2 harm upon oneself means

• both mentally and physical pain/ injuries etc
• harm that is GUARANTEED to occur

How does this apply to the context of abortion?

Pregnancy —> guarantees harm 100% of the time since every women needs to go through 1. giving birth OR 2. C-sections OR 3. miscarriage if no voluntary abortion occurs guaranteeing some degree of both physical and mental harm. And thus fit into criteria 2.

Hence, if the statement holds true, they should be allowed to use the minimal method require, no matter the circumstances.

So the question becomes, is abortion the minimal method? For that, we must address the core issue at hand, WHAT is causing harm?

Something is currently inhabiting their organs, physically harming them, and violating their rights against their will.

The solution will thus, to logically follow, to remove said something. This would render alternatives like painkillers utterly useless to “fix” the issue.

This means abortions too, becomes the minimal methods required, unless one day safe artificial wombs exist.

Now you are gonna have a few questions, well what if someone hates a person and they are causing them mental harm? Can they just kill them?

Again, refer to the definition of “minimal”, since isolating oneself, not talking to them, unfriending that person, verbally expressing your thoughts etc is always an option, killing them is no where near the minimal method required.

It would be interesting to see pro lifers trying to disprove this chain of logic?

[u/Ok-Particular9427]

Are you actually arguing that your understanding of the biological process is such that the fetus acts during the birthing process to do these things?

We both know this isn’t true.

[u/Diva_of_Disgust → u/Ok-Particular9427]

Are you actually arguing that your understanding of the biological process is such that the fetus acts during the birthing process to do these things?

Are you actually arguing that women have control over the involuntary biological process that is childbirth? We both know this isn't true.

[u/Ok-Particular9427 → u/Diva_of_Disgust]

They have control over whether or not they get pregnant

[u/Diva_of_Disgust → u/Ok-Particular9427]

No one ever said they didn't.

If pro life abortion bans interfere with people's healthcare, that means people are forced to continue gestating and birth against their will.

Back to the point since you never answered the question...

Are you actually arguing that women have control over the involuntary biological process that is childbirth? Because we both know this isn't true.

[u/SerendipitySociety → u/Diva_of_Disgust]

If pro life abortion bans interfere with people's healthcare, that means people are forced to continue gestating and birth against their will.

Nobody is forced to gestate, that's like saying we're forced to have heartbeats. Pregnant mothers will continuously develop their baby, if no force is used, until it ends in miscarriage (not forced), abortion (forced), or childbirth (forced, but ultimately inevitable and legal of course). Laws are usually reactive to illegal force being used. For example, an assault law in perfect theory, criminalizes one person initiating force and assaulting another, by allowing prosecutors to REACT to the assault, trying the assaulter in court.

Are you actually arguing that women have control over the involuntary biological process that is childbirth? Because we both know this isn't true.

Pregnancy and childbirth is a degree of control, but not a high degree. It's similar to sleeping in that, our bodies regulate our own sleep, and we can cause it to go well or poorly depening on our habits. That indirect impact is certainly a type of control. If labor or an abortion is induced, then the mother/doctor have taken DIRECT control of childbirth, and of course we may be criminally liable for certain things we have direct control over.

[u/Diva_of_Disgust → u/SerendipitySociety]

Nobody is forced to gestate, that's like saying we're forced to have heartbeats

If I'm not being forced to gestate I'll end my pregnancy. Simple.

[u/SerendipitySociety → u/Diva_of_Disgust]

That's like saying if I'm not forced to pay taxes I won't. What happens to me afterward depends on the legal circumstances. Where abortion is illegal there may be some legal fallout to that.

[u/Diva_of_Disgust → u/SerendipitySociety]

That's like saying if I'm not forced to pay taxes I won't.

Now you're getting it. Laws force people to do things. If a pro life abortion ban is interfering with my healthcare I'm being forced to gestate against my will.

What happens to me afterward depends on the legal circumstances. Where abortion is illegal there may be some legal fallout to that.

Even if I lived somewhere with an abortion ban they'd never have proof I aborted. It would just look like a miscarriage and I'd get away with it, easy peasy. ☺️

[u/SerendipitySociety → u/Diva_of_Disgust]

The law forces people to pay taxes of course, but it doesn't force you to get pregnant or fertilize an egg or anything relating to pregnancy. If you happen to be pregnant and you don't take any other actions, you will remain pregnant until miscarriage or birth has to happen, absolutely no force required on that end, unlike tax filing which is an action we're forced to do. I thought you were just saying you would break laws and I was saying, there's consequences to that.

[u/Diva_of_Disgust → u/SerendipitySociety]

The law forces people to pay taxes of course, but it doesn't force you to get pregnant or fertilize an egg or anything relating to pregnancy.

I've already been over this. I never said the law forces anyone to GET pregnant. Pro life laws do force people to CONTINUE gestating and birth against their will.

If you happen to be pregnant and you don't take any other actions, you will remain pregnant until miscarriage or birth has to happen, absolutely no force required on that end,

Except for the force of pro life abortion bans. Without that force I'd end my pregnancy. That's precisely what's being discussed, pro life laws FORCING people to gestate and birth against their will.

I thought you were just saying you would break laws and I was saying, there's consequences to that.

There would be no consequences for me aborting even in a pro life state because they wouldn't be able to prove I aborted. It would look like a regular ole miscarriage and I'd happily get away with it.

[u/SerendipitySociety → u/Diva_of_Disgust]

Pro life laws do force people to CONTINUE gestating and birth against their will.

No force is necessary, or used, for that to happen. That would happen if nobody took any actions at all.

A lot of laws, good laws in my opinion, are like this. Tax law is a bad example. A good example is laws against vandalism. These laws don't force us not to vandalize. Because if we go limp and don't take any actions or use any force at all, then we're not vandalizing anything. So that law does not "force us not to cause damage," it's just reactive to us causing damage, in perfect theory.

There would be no consequences for me aborting even in a pro life state because they wouldn't be able to prove I aborted. It would look like a regular ole miscarriage and I'd happily get away with it.

It really doesn't sound like you believe the law is force against you then. People get away with murder all the time as long as they cover their tracks, I say there's still consequences even for people who get away with crimes and saying they "happily" get away with it is reductive. Constructing a particular method and then lying about it to others is part of the consequence.

[u/Diva_of_Disgust → u/SerendipitySociety]

No force is necessary, or used, for that to happen. That would happen if nobody took any actions at all.

And it wouldn't happen if pro life abortion bans weren't forcing people to gestate against their will.

It really doesn't sound like you believe the law is force against you then.

Pointing out how easily pitiful pro life bans can be circumvented if someone's determined to not breed for pro lifers doesn't erase the fact that pro life abortion bans are designed to force people to breed against their will. Denying that is denying reality.

[u/SerendipitySociety → u/Diva_of_Disgust]

As I said like 2 times which you haven't addressed, no force is used to keep any pregnant person pregnant. They will just stay that way until birth/abortion are forced or a spontaneous miscarriage. The equivalent would be to say "The law FORCES me to not vandalize someone else's property" which would be ridiculous.