• Flax
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    461 month ago

    Unironically should be legal. I think pregnant women should be able to claim child benefit, too.

    • MentalEdge
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      451 month ago

      According to the article linked by another commenter, it literally is.

      She was ticketed, but it was then dismissed in court, because she was right.

      • Flax
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        -441 month ago

        Based. Unborn people are still people.

          • Flax
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            -241 month ago

            Should be worldwide. Common sense.

              • Jolteon
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                Therefore anybody younger than about a year old is fair game.

                • MentalEdge
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                  Hardly. Infanticide being illegal doesn’t compromise the body autonomy of anyone, but abortion being illegal, does.

              • Flax
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                -111 month ago

                Foetus are pretty conscious. They kick about in the womb among other things. Saw an ultrasound of an abortion and the poor thing was trying to resist ☹️

            • @explodicle
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              41 month ago

              Actually it’s common sense that they’re not.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          And those unborn people should be able to be killed if the mother doesn’t want them. As long as they require her body to stay alive.

          As nobody should be able to force what an other person does with the things in their body.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Definitely think you should be able to claim fetuses on taxes if you are pregnant pregnant more than half the year.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          I had thought about that, but also thought about how that would be spun by conservative pundits.

          Clearly, women will get pregnant once a year for the tax benefits of having a child, and then abort it.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      Does this apply further, though? If a car is registered for 4 passengers, would a fetus count towards that total?

      • Flax
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        41 month ago

        Are cars registered for passenger numbers?

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          Maybe it’s not a US-thing? Cars in Norway have a registered numbers of seats specified in the car’s registration, so I just assumed this was a general thing.

          • Flax
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            11 month ago

            I don’t live in the US. Although if it is registered seats, the seat is inside the mother, who is the vehicle for the baby, not the car