• Melkath@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    I mean… I agree.

    A sperm isn’t a human. An egg isn’t a human. An embryo isn’t a human.

    The laws are quite frankly assanine.

    Condoms, birth control, and safe abortions for all.

    I pause a bit at girls popping morning after pills like tic tacs. I don’t think they are meant for that. I think the aforementioned would serve those ladies better, but I won’t stand in their way.

    As a dude, I have a little but not a lot of say in all that.

    What I sure as shit know is that no man has the right to force a woman to incubate a child, and the way I word that highlights how I think the world is fucked, it’s overpopulated, our education and social services are quite frankly shit, and we don’t need children being brought into this dumpster fire.

    I hope for a day where that isn’t such a horrible idea, but that day isn’t today.

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      9 months ago

      A sperm isn’t a human. An egg isn’t a human. An embryo isn’t a human.

      I agree with your point but I hate the way you phrased it. The things you mentioned aren’t people, but sperm, eggs, and embryos all belong to a specific species, so if a human sperm, human egg, and human embryo aren’t human, I don’t know what you’d call them to distinguish them from their counterparts from other species.

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        9 months ago

        “Isn’t a life”?

        But we aren’t talking about cat IVF, so the distinction isn’t needed.

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          9 months ago

          A human embryo is human regardless of whether we’re talking about other species or not. So is a human corpse. I’ve also seen people say an embryo, egg, etc. isn’t alive, which is patently false; they can die, so they’re alive. Nonhuman beings can’t be people, and nonliving things can’t be people, but being human and being alive aren’t the traits that matter, except as they relate to being a person.

          That’s why I’m suggesting “not a person” is the right language to use, because we’re talking about the concept of personhood, which is what we use to distinguish entities with rights from those without.