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Originally Posted by corporatejay
Which is crazy because that is a totally and completely valid opinion. We have arbitrarily picked the moment a fetus emerges from vagina as its personhood. Why did we choose it? How much different is a fetus at 29 weeks v. a new born pre-me at 22 weeks?
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Then we have a countervailing sentiment growing in recent years that society should regard a miscarriage as the loss of a child. So whether I should regard the 12 week old fetus in another person's body as a cluster of cells that can be disposed of without remorse, or a child whose loss should be grieved over, depends entirely on how the person carrying the fetus regards it. Which I find tough to get my head around.
But to bring it back to freedom of speech on campus, it's hard to defend on principle the dramatically different treatment of students who protest against abortion and students who protest against patriarchal colonial privilege.