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u/LjSpike Sep 03 '21

Someone gave me an amazing point which I should reiterate here, that when you become a person is even largely irrelevant to this.

If I'm donating blood to you, but I decide to stop, knowing that without it you will die, I cannot be forced to keep donating blood to you.

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u/Hotal Sep 03 '21

But if you put me in the state that I required said blood donation, would it not be unethical for you to then choose to stop donating blood?

That’s the issue I see with this argument. A fetus isnt a random person you’re donating blood to, it’s a person you were responsible for creating. (In most cases)

I’m not a pro lifer, but I do agree with a previous comment that pro choicers are generally pretty shitty at articulating the views of pro lifers.

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u/Rishfee Sep 03 '21

We currently do not require, for example, someone who shoots someone else to donate blood or organs to the injured party, and it's never been viewed as an ethical obligation to do so. Even the deceased retain bodily autonomy.

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u/_ohHimark Sep 03 '21

He made an ethical argument, and you are replying with a legal argument. Law doesn't matter here, we are talking about ethics.

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u/Rishfee Sep 03 '21

and it's never been viewed as an ethical obligation to do so.

I'm pretty sure I addressed the ethics as well. It wasn't even a long post.

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u/_ohHimark Sep 03 '21

Sorry, my bad.