Tuesday, July 10, 2007

A detatched rational look at prolife v prochoice

Is hair human?
No

Fingernails?
No

Your arm?
No

Sperm?
No

These are really stupid ass retorts you know.

Should we start counting pregnant women as 2 people for purposes of the census/defining representation?

If you want.

Should a fetus be able to own real and/or personal property --- not just a future interest, but a present interest?

Exactly what property would they own?

Should citizenship (one of the rights of being born in this country) be granted upon conception?

I don't think live begins at conception (probably halfway through), but as a society we should get together and decide when live begins, not a court.

Should citizenship (one of the rights of being born in this country) be granted upon conception?

See above comment about conception, but once again society should get to determine when live begins, not courts.

Unmarried Man gets woman pregnant. Man's only offspring would be the fetus. Should all of his property go to the fetus?

Assuming property is automatically inherited by next of kin in lieu of will (is that how it works?) then sure. Don't see a problem. Is it all that different then an infant inheriting wealth.

Now there is a miscarriage, all of the property now goes to the Mom, right? After all the fetus, who owned all of the property died without a will. Now all of the estate of the fetus goes to the mom.

I don't think that is how inheritance law would work if an infant died, but I'm no expert on inheritance law (never inherited anything).

For all you inheritance law questions treat the fetus as if it were a newborn infant.

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