Republicans of reddit, with the announcement of the SCOTUS eyeing Roe, how do you justify using "my body my choice" to protest mask mandates but not women's right to abortion?

Eh, yes and no. A caregiver legally owes effort to a dependent. You can't neglect a child (or elderly person, or disabled person) until they die - that's a felony pretty much everywhere. Hell, neglecting a pet to death is felony animal cruelty in a lot of places.

So "only one matching donor in the world for a kidney/bone marrow/whatever" argument isn't exactly on point, because a caregiver is responsible to a dependent fat more than a random person would be. But a caregiver also isn't required to go to extraordinary lengths, either. So when looking at the situation from a caregiver perspective, the two questions are 1)at what point does a fetus become a dependent (which is an awful lot like the "at what point is it a person" question), and 2)is carrying a viable pregnancy to term ordinary support or extraordinary support? I don't have good answers for either of those questions, but hopefully it shows that the legal and moral principles are a lot muddier than "nobody owes somebody else a kidney full stop."

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