05-16-2019, 09:07 AM
(05-16-2019, 01:11 AM)bfine32 Wrote: I thought the article backed up his point quite well. Can desiring (actively working toward) your offspring to lose one of his/her 5 senses be considered maiming?
Not even close.
He challenged the position of a woman's ownership over her body by asking if women should be able to have a surgery that removes the limbs of the fetus. When that was dismissed as an absurd scenario that does not exist, he used the example of a deaf family using a deaf surrogate to increase the likelihood of having a deaf child as proof that this would occur.
The second scenario has nothing to do with a woman's ownership of her body.
While I do not know why anyone would wish that on a child, it certainly isn't anywhere close to having surgery to cut the limbs off a fetus nor does it do anything to challenge the argument against a woman's ownership of her body.
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