Mollyseye , TheAngryApologist & SlipperyJim211 #wingnut reddit.com

Pro-choicers need to stop making implausible scenarios
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(Mollyseye)
Fine. They want implausible scenarios? Let's say there is a 26 year old woman that's pressing a button that instantly gives her pleasure. She knows that by doing this there is a 2% chance (each time) she will wake up with a random innocent person hooked up on her for 9 months. You wake up next to her but she decides that it's her choice to butcher you with an machete so she doesn't have to be burdened with you. Do you believe she has the right to do it? Do you accept your fate like a good pro choicer? Are you okay with people celebrating your death afterwards and the woman going on to kill 4 more people like this?

(TheAngryApologist)
This is basically the same argument as the Famous Violinist. They completely remove the agency from the woman. In this case the man has no part in the girl needing life support and no part in the girl being attached to him.

A more accurate analogy to pregnancy would be something like:

If I go up to a 16 year old girl and stab her kidneys, destroying them, while attaching a life support tube from me to her, keeping her alive, do I have a right to remove the life support tube?

Obviously not!

(SlipperyJim211)
Surgically attaching a stranger to your body is among the most unnatural of acts. They literally made a whole series of horror movies about this idea. In comparison, pregnancy is usually a natural process. One can inject artificiality into pregnancy via medical technologies (surrogacy, IVF, etcetera), but those are the edge cases. The vast, vast majority of pregnancies occur as a result of sexual intercourse. That's a natural process as old as the human race.

Pregnancy is not organ donation. If it was, the human race would never have survived the Bronze Age, much less reached the current year.

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