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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you want to call something like this conscious, you're opening up the door to start calling a fetus conscious as well since that bundle of cells definitely has more structure and complexity than these experiments.

meh. consciousness wouldn't give it any more right to gestation. the anti-choice freaks would all murder someone who was taking food out of their fridge.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is definitely not the correct takeaway from what I was saying, and honestly reads like something that a right wing grifter would say as a jab at pro-choice.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

i wasn't taking that from you i was saying it doesn't matter because the bodily autonomy of the parent survives regardless of any status given to a fetus. we also see this in the violinist analogy.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

I believe their unstated point was that nobody can be forced to violate their bodily autonomy to save another person's life. You cannot be required to donate a kidney, for example. The bans and hullabaloo around abortion are the sole (hypocritical) exception.