Reply #80: Slight difference

[booksenkatz]

My metaphor was not comparing the fetus with a tenant overstaying his welcome in my rental property; my metaphor was a stranger coming directly into my home and refusing to leave. That would clearly be trespassing, and in some cases/states, I think you are protected under the law for killing a trespasser in certain circumstances, i.e. if you feel threatened. Perhaps I feel that my health (physical and/or mental) is threatened by this fetal trespasser, especially since this trespasser has latched onto my body and is sucking the life out of me, living off of my blood. I wouldn't let a stranger off the street do that, now, would I? If I were, say, a lactating mother, happily nursing my baby, I wouldn't let some stranger come in off the street and nurse my other breast, would I? No one should be allowed to come in and force his/her presence upon/into my body without my permission.

This entire lunatic discussion is why the law needs to stay out of people's reproductive organs.