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Originally Posted by RichieLion
Your suppositions are not as hard to answer as you think.
It is the mother's body and she can eat what she wants. The baby should have a right to a great environment, but some people's parents are wonderful people and some are not. Life's not always fair. If the mother is neglectful, it's sad, but not always criminal.
The point you keep making about one twin absorbing another is unadulterated b.s., and you know it. If a child were to pick up a gun and shoot his 3 yr. old twin there would be nobody who'd consider THAT a crime of the child. So just stuff that one back in you duffel bag of imaginative scenarios.
Money?; you want to talk about the cost of keeping a person alive. Really? Get off that road before you lose your soul.
You've got no case counselor. I suggest you cut your losses.
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You're making my point for me. Warning me about losing my soul? That's EXACTLY the response I expected and actually WANTED from you because it demonstrates just how volatile the subject matter is. In that respect I *completely* agree with you.
My point about the whole 'failed twin' thing was in regards to the idea that a zygote is supposed to have human rights - ALL of them - which is what I'm lead to believe the Mississippi proposal was all about.
But to something that happens more often, the part where you wrote about, for example, the mother's diet. If MI's measure had passed, you know SOMEONE was going to go along the lines of pointing out how a woman could be charged with negligent homicide if their infant died of neglect - THEREFORE the same standard should be exercised in defense of the fetus. As you said, it's not always criminal - but you know very well there are times it WOULD be.. And just where would we draw the line on that? Heck, it's hard enough drawing the line on viability (and that line moves with technological development).
Now, I give you credit for bringing up the "3 year old shoots sibling" scenario - took me a few seconds to find 37 *million* hits on or related to young children shooting others - and the arguments going on trying to decide just WHEN to hold someone responsible for their actions. I should have thought of that myself.