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If abortions are to be criminalised, would that logically mean that a miscarriage should lead to an inquest?

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Originally posted by mrstabby
If abortions are to be criminalised, would that logically mean that a miscarriage should lead to an inquest?
A miscarriage isn't intentional and for many women it's a devastating event that they carry with them for a very long time, if not forever.

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Originally posted by pawnhandler
A miscarriage isn't intentional and for many women it's a devastating event that they carry with them for a very long time, if not forever.
Very true, which is why this is of concern. Wouldn't want a society to be causing unnecessary emotional trauma to women.
If a fetus should have the same rights and protections as a person, would doctors have to start testing for abortion drugs to assure an inquest that the miscarriage were natural?

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Originally posted by mrstabby

If a fetus should have the same rights and protections as a person, would doctors have to start testing for abortion drugs to assure an inquest that the miscarriage were natural?
If you give a fetus rights, then you take away reproductive rights from a woman. I don't see how you can take rights away from one group by giving them to another group.

A woman will always and should always have control over her own body...unless some country elects a religous hardliner that removes this basic right from women. I don't see this happening in any modern civiilization.

Maybe the US.

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Originally posted by uzless
If you give a fetus rights, then you take away reproductive rights from a woman. I don't see how you can take rights away from one group by giving them to another group.

A woman will always and should always have control over her own body...unless some country elects a religous hardliner that removes this basic right from women. I don't see this happening in any modern civiilization.

Maybe the US.
If you give fetuses rigths, you will also need to give rights to appendixes, kidneys, livers, ect.

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Originally posted by Retrovirus
If you give fetuses rigths, you will also need to give rights to appendixes, kidneys, livers, ect.
It would also make pulling the plug on brain dead patients illegal...

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Originally posted by mrstabby
If abortions are to be criminalised, would that logically mean that a miscarriage should lead to an inquest?
No.

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Originally posted by uzless
If you give a fetus rights, then you take away reproductive rights from a woman. I don't see how you can take rights away from one group by giving them to another group.

A woman will always and should always have control over her own body...unless some country elects a religous hardliner that removes this basic right from women. I don't see this happening in any modern civiilization.

Maybe the US.
The fetus is not a part of the woman's body. The fetus has its own DNA. It has its own life. It is a human being.

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Originally posted by Retrovirus
If you give fetuses rigths, you will also need to give rights to appendixes, kidneys, livers, ect.
No, because appendixes, kidney, etc are not human beings.

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Originally posted by uzless
If you give a fetus rights, then you take away reproductive rights from a woman. I don't see how you can take rights away from one group by giving them to another group.

A woman will always and should always have control over her own body...unless some country elects a religous hardliner that removes this basic right from women. I don't see this happening in any modern civiilization.

Maybe the US.
"I don't see how you can take rights away from one group by giving them to another group."

Reasoning this way slavery would still be legal.

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
"I don't see how you can take rights away from one group by giving them to another group."

Reasoning this way slavery would still be legal.
Who's rights were taken away by freeing the slaves?

The right, as quoted in the bible, to own slaves? Is that what you are referring to?

There is an obvious difference in that the right has to be a legitmate right in the first place.

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Originally posted by mrstabby
Very true, which is why this is of concern. Wouldn't want a society to be causing unnecessary emotional trauma to women.
If a fetus should have the same rights and protections as a person, would doctors have to start testing for abortion drugs to assure an inquest that the miscarriage were natural?
No. The doctors would be given the authority to determine if such measures were needed. The doctor would know his patient well enough to determine intent. In the event of someone without a personal physician who just appears at the ER, again, the doctor on duty makes the call.

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Originally posted by ivanhoe
The fetus is not a part of the woman's body. The fetus has its own DNA. It has its own life. It is a human being.
I miss the part where the human has a right to be inside of another human being. If a woman doesn't consent the use of her body then the fetus has no right to be there.

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Originally posted by uzless
If you give a fetus rights, then you take away reproductive rights from a woman. I don't see how you can take rights away from one group by giving them to another group.

A woman will always and should always have control over her own body...unless some country elects a religous hardliner that removes this basic right from women. I don't see this happening in any modern civiilization.

Maybe the US.
Would you let one siamese twin order a doctor to kill the other one? The woman can do whatever whe wants with her own body, but not if it results in the death of another body. It's like giving someone the right to stab someone else because they're using their own arm to stab the person.

Also, taking rights away from one group in order to protect the lives of another group, in my opinion, is justified.

As to the original topic of this thread, I don't think that an inquest would be necessary. Unless, of course, there was overwhelming reason to believe that an abortion had been carried out. I believe that the real problem with abortion is how readily accessible it is.

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