Did I ask an unanswerable question?
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The answer is actually very simple.\n\nThere are four discrete parts/stages to the pregnancy and child raising process. Becoming pregnant, remaining pregnant (pre-viability), remaining pregnant (post viability) and providing for the child after it is born. These stages define, both medically and legally, the rights of those involved.\n\nYour philosophy teacher has apparently studied neither law nor medicine, for the answer to the question is obvious once you look at the medical and legal statuses involved. Some people might not like the medical terminology that this answer uses, but it is the clearest to make the point.\n\nThe 'becoming pregnant' stage requires a minimum of two participants, in three roles -- the sperm donor (aka father) and the egg donor (aka mother), and the person providing the womb to carry the embryo (aka host-mother or surrogate). The latter two roles (mother and host-mother) are often the same person, but medically they do not need to be.\n\nLook at it first medically. Before pregnancy, both (or all three) are involved. During pregnancy, only the host-mother is involved, with one more person (the child) becoming involved at the point of independent viability. After pregnancy, none of the original two/three is directly involved -- only the child is.\n\nLet’s break that down into more detail. Before and during concept, both the egg and sperm donor, and the host-mother must all consent to the process. At this stage, both donors have equal say in whether they contribute, and thus have equal rights as to their involvement (or not). And the host-mother certainly has a legal say over whether she becomes pregnant in the first place. In other words, any one of them refusing prevents the pregnancy from ever occurring. So, because they must all consent to become involved, as a matter of law, they all have equal rights to prevent the pregnancy from ever occurring.\n\nOK. But during pregnancy, neither the egg donor nor the sperm donor are involved medically. Neither is continuing to provide any support, medically, for the child -- unless the egg donor also happens to be the host-mother. But whether she is or not, the two legal roles are distinct for a very important reason.\n\nDuring the pregnancy, the host-mother is the only one medically involved. In fact, she is only involved in her capacity as the life-support system for the child, providing nourishment literally out of her own body. In the case where the egg donor is different than the surrogate, it is only the surrogate -- the person whose body is undergoing the life-sustaining process, the host-mother -- only she is directly physically involved. \n\nSince she is the only one medically involved in this stage of the process, she is the only one who can consent, or withhold her consent, to remain involved. As such, she is the only one who has legal rights at this stage whether to choose an abortion or not. Nobody else is physically involved, so nobody else has the physical ability to affect the process by withholding consent.\n\nAlso note that right to choose only applies during the pre-viability portion. Once the fetus can survive on its own, it has its own independent rights as a living being, and all the mother can do is have the child put on external life support. In other words, while she can still choose (consenting or withholding consent) as to whether she remains involved in the process, that choice cannot override the fetus’s rights, because the fetus can be put in an incubator even if the host-mother decides to opt-out. Notice the important fact that the host-mother granting or withholding consent only affects her personal medical involvement, not what happens to anyone else involved.\n\nAfter birth, none of the original two (father / mother) or three (sperm donor / egg donor / host-mother) is involved medically. None of them. So, none of them have the option of withholding consent to their continued biological involvement, because none of
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what questions have you asked? i can't remember if i did answer any of your questions.
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This question or one of the others you asked? It is possible no one knows the answers to the other questions you asked about your mouse locking up etc.
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I have NO idea what you are talking about or asking.
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I don't know. I know I asked one question which may have sounded dumb to some of you who are so computer literate but I really wanted to know the answer and no one responded. Fortunately, I did find out what to do. I am sorry that your questions haven't always been answered. Maybe we don't know any good answers or the questions are too difficult. I will look for your questions next time.
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did you not answer your own question?
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Sorry. I have no answer...
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you havn't specified what you want solved?
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Is there a question there somewhere?
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ummm, whats the question?
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there is no concrete answer
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Don't understand exactly what the question is...
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I can't answer, I can't answer that.
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I do not understand your questioin.. if it is a question
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I didnt get the question
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is this a question?\n\nbecause there is no answer
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Uh.\nWhat's the question?