PHIL 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fetus, Pirkei Avot, Miscarriage
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Withdrawing assistance is not the same as harmful interference. Procreating/bringing someone into existence is not the same as harmful interference. A short life without experiences vs. no life. Little: some harms aught to be tolerated because the burden of preventing them is too great to require anyone to assume it. Sometimes the cost of refraining from causing harm outweighs the cost of the harm itself. So in the case that the man doesn"t experience discomfort, the woman has sex when she really doesn"t want to. Gives consent to the man, not the fetus. In consenting to sex, the woman assumes responsibility for the consequences = she is assuming the risk . No one can waive the right against involuntary servitude. Little: to mandate pregnancy upon conception is to take away a key option for avoiding subordinative results that society itself attacks to pregnancy + motherhood (attacks to gestation + mothering)
