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Originally posted by brianna
hilbert: do we sterilize rapists? i don't think so. and i wouldn't advocate cutting their penises off either. i find it somewhat disturbing that i'm being asked to compare a woman who gets an abortion to a rapist.
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Actually we don't quite sterilize, but there have been laws like this:
http://archive.aclu.org/news/w082396a.html on the books.
Now why would you not compare getting an abortion to raping someone? Granted it's an extreme case, and I did not mean to say that people who have abortions are evil, But, I did mean to show a case where the federal government does regulate your body.
Tell me, which is worse, killing an innocent woman or killing an innocent pregnant woman?
And if they are the same, then would kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach be no worse than kicking someone who isn't in the stomach? Since you're only stopping a bodily function rather than killing someone?
The courts no longer see it that way, so how come if I kill your unborn child it's illegal, but if you do it's not? Or at least how come it's more illegal than me cutting your hair against your will?