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CuriousLord -> RE: What are some of your most controversial opinions? (2/8/2008 11:25:17 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SophiaCorrupted
A firefighters responsibility, and livelihood is to save children in this instance. Their place in society revolves around saving these children. It is no one's responsibility, particularly not any nosy pro-life types, to control what comes and goes in my vagina
This is to say that, if a woman installed knives in her vagina then slept with random men, she couldn't be held liable for assault?
Of course, it's a silly scenerio, but my point is that one's rights over his own body are mitigated when there's another body involved. When two bodies are in contact, you can't just say "it's my body" and have it justify everything. If you could, then rape would be legal. Afterall, you can't tell the man where his penis can and can't go, or the female rapist what can and can't go into her vagina.
In short, you're completely neglecting the rights of others. In this case, children.
PS- Sorry, didn't address the point about it not being pro-lifer's business, but it would be the fighter fighters'. I'd respond that it is everyone's business; that we're citizens in a state which values human life. Of course, you can make the argument about whether or not it's human life, but I think it's pretty obvious that, to some degree, they are. Still, if one doesn't see it this way, it's not a question of "this isn't your business" so much as "is it your business"?
However, I would like to point out that from a rather immediately academic point of view that a fetus can be most aptly seen a human to a degree; it's not a "is" or "isn't" sort of deal as such definitions rely on arbtirary conditions and limits set by an individual as opposed to a more honest approach.
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