Reply #59: there is no moral issue at stake here [View All]

[veganwitch]

we either choose that you can strap people down and perform any major surgery on them that you want without their consent, or not.

or we can choose to start throwing pregnant women in jail for: not taking her prenatal vitamins everyday, having a cigarette while pregnant or just being around cigarette smoke, eating a bag of potato chips instead of a piece of fruit, having caffienated coffee or soda, not gaining enough or too much weight, continuing to work, wearing high heels, not sleeping on their left side,... or not.

or we can start investigating every premature, postmature, stillborn, birth defect, case of jaudice, gbs, SIDS for anything that could possibly "prove" that the mother was at fault, or not.

edit: and we start sterilising all people with diagnosed mental problems, political views outside the norm, certain religious tendancies, objectional skin, hair, eye colour...