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Anna Rompage's avatar

At 6 weeks, an embryo resembles the product of a very productive sneeze…

At 10 weeks, it resembles a slimy Cheeto…

At 16 weeks, it looks like a cross between Chucky, and that thing that jumps out of people stomachs in the Alien franchise

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Fetal "personhood" is one of the forced birthers favorite arguments, but it's disingenuous at best and deliberately dishonest at worst.

In terms of body autonomy, it doesn't matter whether the fetus is a cluster of cells or a "person". The hospitals are full of patients who are full-fledged persons. Some of them need blood transfusions, or tissue samples, or organ donations. And THEY can't demand them, EITHER, at least not without the consent of the donor -- not even if they'll die without them.

If these folks want to deem consent irrelevant, we'll be at their door tomorrow morning to harvest their organs for my uncle who needs a kidney -- with or without their permission.

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