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An ethics professor at Cambridge talks about teaching ethics in 2025 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also a health issue. It involves choices about life, not unlike someone in a coma or another situation where they are unable to make a conscious choice about whether to continue or deny treatment.

One argument in favor of abortion I recall reading was comparing it to donating an organ while you're still alive. You are under no obligation of donating anything, of risking your life to save another, even if you are literally the only person on Earth that can save the other. If medical professionals have to respect those choices, they should also respect the choice of mothers who decide to end an undesired pregnancy

[โ€“] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It's even worse than that. You can't even be forced to donate organs or blood after you're dead. Most places are opt-in for organ donation. A few jurisdiction are opt-out. Nowhere has mandatory posthumous organ donation. Some despotic countries have apparently used force organ harvesting on political dissidents, but no country has ever established some broad rule, based on patriotism or some such, that everyone has to donate organs after death.

In red states, pregnant women literally have less bodily autonomy than corpses.