It’s cool. I really like porn.

Interesting. I’m an adult man, and I was unaware of this. I know quite a few fuck-free adult men.

OK. I’m a dude. I didn’t know you had to fuck someone to have an identity. It’s news to me.

Do many women not tie their sense of happiness to sex, relationships and children?

I always wonder. Because there is porn. And most of the time, porn is better than sex.

During the latter half of the 20th century we also believed that semen contained a tiny little man that grew to a full human inside a woman. Perhaps we should steer clear of ancient superstition.

What the fuck does this have to do with what I’m talking about?

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Why not? We compel women to be parents against their will after the baby is on the outside.

Sure. But why are you allowed to terminate a fetus but not a baby. Where abortion is concerned what is the functional purpose of the distinction?

Why is it a baby when it comes out, but a fetus when it is in? Why can you legally destroy one but not the other. What is the basis of this line of thought?

There is a clear difference between heartbeat and 8 months, but if you want to make a general rule that will apply so as to say when the entity is a baby and when it is a fetus you have to identify a transition point. Otherwise you risk committing murder (if you’re being intellectually rigorous, I guess). Going by…

By that logic you can terminate one but not the other. What if you’re on your way to the hospital for an abortion but the baby comes out on the way? Can you still terminate it? What if the doctor removes the baby from the uterus in tact/en caul etc, and after it is separated from the mother it is still alive, can…

Babies as young as ~22 weeks have made it.

If you go by the formation of the simplest CNS, then the neural tube is “complete” (bothe neuropores closed) at 27 days, that’s before a detectable heartbeat in most instances. Beyond that, I’m sure in the future there will be some fetal EEG that can detect fetal neural activity. But, what I’m saying is the primitive…

And what is our best guess? Can we use guessing for something that is life and death? If we aren’t sure that the thing inside a uterus isn’t a person isn’t there a chance that we are committing murder?

The situation you describe is very easy to get around, where hearts are concerned. If someone’s heartbeat “stops” they are not pronounced dead immediately. But if after 20 minutes of resucitative attempts there is still no heartbeat, then that person may be pronounced dead. By that logic, only after 20 minutes of no…

I support abortion on the grounds of practicality. The earth is nigh overpopulated and it’s probably better for a child not to be born than to be born to parent who don’t want it. But fetus vs child distinction seems to be made on arbitrary grounds. Is it development of heart or central nervous system? Is it when the…

Why not? When does life begin? Isn’t the line an entity have to cross to become a person somewhat arbitrary? What is the difference between an 8month old fetus and a baby born 1 month premature?

Weed is lit.