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Originally Posted by willravel
What about this statement, which is similar to yours:
"The mother is always responsible for the child, regardless of whether she wants to be." Sounds very pro-life.
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Sounds like you're using a loose definition of child. Before it's born, it's a fetus. A woman is free to keep and care for a fetus, or have it removed from her body. A man's responsible for the consequences of his insemination from conception through <arbitrary age of maturity assigned by society>.
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A fetus is a symbiont, not a parasite. The mother provides protection and nourishment and the child provides a continuation of the species. The relationship is symbiotic.
Not only that, but does housing suggest ownership? As I stated before, if I eat your jewelry, is it then mine? Because if that's the case, then I see a lucrative future in ingesting precious stones in my future.
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No, biologically the fetus is a parasite. It robs the mother of nutrients and alters her body irrevocably whilst in the womb. The symbiotic relationship is metaphorical at best, as species propagation is correlative to gestation.
Again with the word play
If you swallow jewelry, your body will generally expel it from your body in a natural process, but should you chose to circumvent that process through any of a variety of methods, you have that right.