• joe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    as in a fetus is a person with rights.

    So if a pregnant person gets attacked and it causes a miscarriage, it shouldn’t be considered some form of murder or manslaughter?

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      1 year ago

      no. next. on edit: the woman is the one harmed and her tort is what needs to be made right.

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        1 year ago

        Well, I suppose you’re at least consistent. Most people agree that terminating a pregnant person’s pregnancy against her will should be a murder charge, myself included.

        Does that mean a woman can sell her zygote? I’m working through the implications.

        You know, it’s far simpler just to say “yeah, it has rights but in these circumstance this other person who also has rights has precedence.”

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          Women already ‘sell their zygotes’, its called a surrogate mother. We just pretend that is somehow different.

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              1 year ago

              Perhaps research surrogates? In some cases the mother is transferring ownership of her half of the ‘zygote’ to another party.

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                    1 year ago

                    It’s wholly off topic, but the egg would be what was “sold”. Not the zygote. This is a crazy conversation. Haha