At pandagon there is comment thread right now talking about abortion. …I am all for abortions, but I can’t debate about it. Why? Well, partly because I get to emotional on the subject and partly because… this is one area that just pisses me off when people go all ape-shit and try to tell me that a baby = fetus.
But there is one comment by ACG made today at 9:06 am that made me laugh unreasonably hard.
Not so with a fetus. A fetus imposes itself on and takes nourishment
from a woman’s body, and if she doesn’t want it there anymore, there’s
nowhere else for it to go. Maybe, someday, medical technology will
create a fetal incubator so that a woman who doesn’t want to be
pregnant can pop that sucker into a jar and appease the religious
right, but until that time, she has every right to not be pregnant if
she doesn’t want to be. The fact that, without her body as a host, the
fetus has nowhere to go, is not her problem. Just like you’re under no
obligation to house the beggar who comes to your door, she’s under no
obligation to house a fetus against her will.
"Uh, whats so funnyabout that?" …Hellooo?? "pop that sucker into a jar" aaaah ha ha ha ha ha. I nearly died laughing.
Also, another comment links to this discussion which is pretty interesting and worth a skim.
