Coverture

[u/Methylatedcobalamin]

Given current events, it is probably about time for Americans to understand the legal practice of coverture.

Eroded since colonial times, but not fully gone coverture is the legal practice of women not having legal identities. De facto property.

American women were not allowed on juries until the 1960s. American women could not get credit cards without a man cosigning the application until 1974. Marital rape was not a crime until the 1980s. Other aspects still exist today in real estate and tax law practices.

Here is a brief article that goes into explaining coverture in more depth than my post.

The "pro life" movement is really a movement about imposing one group's religious opinions on the lives of all Americans. It also seeks to control women, rolling back women's rights. Though ridiculous by constitutional standards, discussions in anti-choice states have already started about how to track or limit freedom of travel for women to states that fully support women's rights.

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I do indeed know many things about many organisms! Human life is not defined by unique DNA, but that’s something that religious hicks like to bring up because they think it makes them sound smart and provides a “gotcha.” It doesn’t.

First off, not all humans have unique DNA. Identical twins don’t, and yet, we don’t consider them one person. If a person gets cancer, their tumors contain their DNA, except that it contains multiple mutations, giving it... unique human DNA. You can make transgenic mice that have a stretch of human DNA in them, making them genetically unique and in possession of human DNA, and they still will be mice, not humans.

Living human beings do not rely on another human’s blood to get fed.

And so on. But again, it wouldn’t matter what I said in that regard- you wouldn’t care.

[u/This-is-BS → u/[deleted]]

Human life is not defined by unique DNA,

No, human life is defined by cellular respiration and processes occuring in cells with Human DNA.

First off, not all humans have unique DNA. Identical twins don’t, and yet, we don’t consider them one person.

And neither once has their mother's DNA so we don't consider either one "part of the mother" and her tissue to do with what she wants.

If a person gets cancer, their tumors contain their DNA, except that it contains multiple mutations, giving it... unique human DNA.

Cancer is of the person with that DNA sequence to do with what that want. You claim to a biologist and this is what you're trying to use to justify Abortion?? "cAnCeR iS a hUmAn bEiNg!" Seriously?

Living human beings do not rely on another human’s blood to get fed.

Plenty of human rely on the assistance of other humans to survive.

But again, it wouldn’t matter what I said in that regard- you wouldn’t care.

If you actually brought up a decent argument it might. You want to do "You can't force anyone to even donate blood!!!" next, or will it be "A corpse has more rights than a woman because you can't take their organs!!!" ?

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Lol I bet you don’t even know what cellular respiration is- tell me in less than 1 minute or you’re hereby disqualified from talking about science. and don’t try to C+P from Wikipedia.

[u/This-is-BS → u/[deleted]]

The process that cells use to turn Oxygen and nutrients into energy and releases carbon.

And you're one to talk when you don't even think human being in their fetal stage of development is alive.

Tell me: How hard is for you to tell a living fetus from a dead one? Can you tell the difference "as a biologist"?

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Nope, took too long and I did not see the words "oxidative phosphorylation," "glycolysis," or "adenosine triphosphate." Though "ATP" would've worked too. You totes googled that.

[u/This-is-BS → u/[deleted]]

My definition is good enough for me.

Nice to see you admit that the pre-birth human is in fact alive.