Proposal sails through, with one vocal opponent saying gay first cousins do not risk having a child with birth defects
Archived version: https://archive.ph/Ri2sc
Proposal sails through, with one vocal opponent saying gay first cousins do not risk having a child with birth defects
Archived version: https://archive.ph/Ri2sc
So, accidental pregnancy between consenting adults that took precautions occurs. Is the state requiring a choice between abortion or jail? Just for the woman, or for both? What if the couple disagree on abortion? Still jail for both, or just one?
Hmm, interesting problem where I don’t exactly have a good answer. But I would still support some form of criminalisation. If I fed my 3 year old cocaine while knowing it was cocaine, should I not be jailed for abuse? Is this situation not similar?
No, because feeding a child cocaine isnillegal and reckless. Having protected sex is not.
But deciding to continue with the pregnancy after your protected sex fails is reckless. You know your child is going to have a 50% probability of having severe genetic defects. If you still continue with the pregnancy, it is equivalent to feeding your child cocaine.
In Tennessee abortion is illegal, so they would have no choice but to continue the pregnancy. So, not really an equal comparison, since presumably you have a choice not to feed your child cocaine.
Ahh… Forgot that this story was in shithole Tennessee.