And if an anti-abortionist tries to tell you otherwise, ask them when they intend to pass legislation instituting a lottery for who gives up their lungs for a transplant. I guarantee fewer than one in a thousand will agree with this idea, and each of them will explain that pregnancy's different because the woman has to be held "responsible" by being forced to carry it to term.
The difference is that in the vast majority of cases, a pregnant woman has actively chosen to take steps which created a measurable risk of pregnancy. If you tried the argument based on a lottery amongst a small group of smokers to provide a lung donor for a non-smoking cancer sufferer known to have been exposed to the secondary smoke of those same smokers, the analogy would work better, and the morality of it would start to look rather different, IMO.
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Date: 2006-02-01 06:09 pm (UTC)The difference is that in the vast majority of cases, a pregnant woman has actively chosen to take steps which created a measurable risk of pregnancy. If you tried the argument based on a lottery amongst a small group of smokers to provide a lung donor for a non-smoking cancer sufferer known to have been exposed to the secondary smoke of those same smokers, the analogy would work better, and the morality of it would start to look rather different, IMO.