The United Neptumousian Empire wrote:Separatist Peoples wrote:"It has already been pointed out how fetuses cannot be considered people and remain in compliance with WA law. They didn't exist. If you want to debate that, find somebody willing to stoop to your level of half-truths in debate; I have higher standards."
"Our government respects the inalienable rights of the unborn, while also remaining in compliance with GAR 286. We obviously cannot enact laws stating a fetus is not an individual, because that's scientifically false. The only choice is to mandate that the fetus' must be kept alive if a pregnancy is terminated. Failure to do so results in a prison sentence of up to 7,000 years."
OOC: I keep forgetting that your nation has artificial wombs. My mistake.
"If you have the means of keeping the fetus alive outside the mother's womb, then it is possible, but for those of us who do not, and I remind you that us "modern technology" folks are the majority here, it isn't possible to make that arrangement, so such sweeping statements are likely to cause confusion for those of us not intimately familiar with Neptumousian technology."
Wallenburg wrote:The United Neptumousian Empire wrote:"Our government respects the inalienable rights of the unborn, while also remaining in compliance with GAR 286. We obviously cannot enact laws stating a fetus is not an individual, because that's scientifically false. The only choice is to mandate that the fetus' must be kept alive if a pregnancy is terminated. Failure to do so results in a prison sentence of up to 7,000 years."
Is there a resolution against cruel and unusual punishment? Because it seems like there should be.
OOC: This puppet of the Flood has artificial womb technology, which makes this a nonissue. One can have terminate a pregnancy in their universe without terminating a fetus. Its, in my mind, a perfectly fair technological exploit.
