
Originally Posted by
ajaxfetish
A rather cavalier statement to make when you are not a woman and have never been pregnant.
And yet you think a mother should be legally obligated to risk sacrificing her life for the unborn child, meaning it would grow up without a mother to take responsibility and care for it. In situations where there is no father in the picture, this seems particularly inconsistent. Children are a large responsibility . . . which you should just hope someone will accept on your behalf.
I hope you're right, and that most men and women would be prepared to give their lives for their children. I'm sure that at least a great many are. But should the government tell them that they have to? Is it really a sacrifice if you're forced to do it, anyway? Again, it's very easy for a man, who will never face this risk, to decide that others should be required to give up their lives for the things he cares about.
I'm afraid I can't agree with you on this point at all, Vuk.
Ajax
edit:
As I noted above, that sounds an awful lot like what you yourself are doing, though only on a probabilistic level.
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