I am so sick and tired of hearing anti-choicers go on and on about how pro-choice allows for women to "punish the fetus with death". Death is the immediate end to the bodily functions we can classify as life. Medically speaking death is recorded when the brain ceases functioning since the brain is responsible for the maintenance of the body.

Death cannot be a punishment because a punishment by definition implies prolonged suffering. When you are dead you cannot suffer anymore. You do not have the capacity to suffer because the synapses in your brain that manifest themselves as thinking have ceased functioning. Also I don't personally believe in the death-penalty for criminals because i rather see criminals (who have been sentenced to death) suffer for what they did and if possible be forced to give back to the community. But that's for another topic.

Saying you punish a fetus with death is like saying you punish an animal that is dieing slowly with death because it had the audacity to get sick. And most people will agree that putting it down is sometimes the most humane thing to do when an animal is suffering and medical intervention will no longer prolong the inevitable. A fetus is the same. Except it isn't sick (not all the time), it had the audacity to be subject to biology and implanted into a womans uterus when she had no desire to allow for its continued existance.

Everything dies is one of my favorite sayings which is also why I personally do not fear death. To me abortion is not about a fetus. It is about a woman being allowed to control what goes on in her body.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

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