{"id":430,"date":"2003-11-05T01:02:57","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T09:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/11\/05\/amy-phillips-on-abortion\/"},"modified":"2003-11-05T01:02:57","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T09:02:57","slug":"amy-phillips-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Amy Phillips on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good pro-choice post from The Fifty Minute Hour:<\/p>\n

Even if we were to accept the premise that a fetus is a person, it may have a right to life, but it doesn’t have the right to subject another person against her will to painful and dangerous medical consequences. If I needed a kidney transplant, I might be able to get the organ I needed to survive by stabbing someone and forcibly removing one of theirs. But even if they recovered with no ill health effects after the attack, I’d be guilty of a moral (and legal) wrong for subjecting them to it in the first place. Those people who want to consider fetuses person must remember that even another person with a right to life doesn’t have the right to that life at the expense of another person, not even if that person is the child’s parent. <\/div>\n

Read the whole thing<\/a>..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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