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An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So mother is in the 12th hour of labor, she can just morally request an abortion? What if the baby is crowning? How about before the cord is clamped or cut? What about the day before a C-section?

[โ€“] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

The mother can, at any point in time, choose not to let someone else use her body. Doing so, practically, in all your examples would result in the birth of the child.

This isn't some clever gotcha, the point of my argument is that the child has no right to use the mothers body to survive. If someone decides not to let someone else use their body, and that means the child dies, then so be it, because bodily autonomy supercedes life.

My argument isn't that a mother should be able to kill a child just because she feels like it. It's acceptable to kill someone to maintain bodily autonomy, that's my argument.

Your "clever" examples all have options where both bodily autonomy are maintained AND life is maintained, which is a double win.