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Originally Posted by Grisu
So now you are not just against calling it life, you also think that if you are not completely healthy when born as a premie your life is not worth being called a life/rescued? Just tell me if I misinterpreted your comment....
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That's right. It's not a life until you cease to depend upon the life of another specific person for you to continue it.
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Yes it is and the same goes for drinking and substance abuse. If a woman knowingly uses/abuses substances while pregnant knowing it will cause problems for the fetus then she deserves to get punished for it.
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Then we will have to make a woman's life an illegal act. Nearly 2/3rds of all pregnancies are aborted naturally by the woman's body; the fertilized egg simply washes out with the menstrual flow. Who's to say that she didn't cause this herself by some intended (murder) or unintended (manslaughter) act?
A surprising number of conditions need to be just right in order for a baby to grow to term. We will have to regulate what pregnant women eat, since diet plays a crucial role in proper development. We will need to make sure she doesn't excercise too much and too little as both can cause miscarriage. We will need to make sure that she doesn't drive without her seatbelt and that it is correctly adjusted each time she drives. We will need to make sure that she doesn't endure too much stress, since stress causes vast changes in her chemical composition - passed directly to fetus. Of course, her husband or partner can cause a great deal of this stress so we will need laws to proscribe punishment for accessory to fetal murder. Very nearly 5% of the female population can be put behind bars immediately (or sterilized) because their inability to carry a fetus to term is already precluded by their DNA; they're just a crime waiting to happen.
The best thing would be to put all pregnant women in a hospice-type atmosphere where we can monitor them at all times. We could call them "Breeder Farms".