Healthy womb: Fetal right?

I'm sorry FAL. My husband just said he agrees with Scarlett. He's on his way to work in a few minutes or he'd have posted. (which he rarely does, thanks for getting him back on here! :thumbs

 

No, it's not my stance, but the article made me think about the topic and made me open up the possibility that I might be wrong. That comes with a lot of questions to ponder.

For example, I believe life starts at conception. With that in mind, I am confused as to why we would all agree that parental rights would be stripped from parents who put their children in a hostile, dangerous living environment, but if a parent makes that hostile, dangerous living environment the womb, why is that somehow different? A fetus is as human as a newborn, a toddler, a child, or a teenager.

Mental health issues - is there a line? Currently, there is a childhood version of psychopathy, but a great reluctance to call it that so they call it something different (they're changing it to a cluster of symptoms in the next DSM-IV) but since an adult must take him/herself to a psychiatrist and request diagnosis, which isn't gonna happen with a psychopath, there's nothing parents can do but unleash that child onto society once the child is a legal adult.

There are parents, the majority of whom adopted, who have gone through the pits trying to raise awareness of this disorder and who end of the victims of the children they were trying to help, living in fear of their own lives or that of their children, but suddenly the kid is an adult with rights. I'm sure you've seen the headlines a zillion times...kid murders gramma or both parents or a sibling and everyone is shocked because he/she was "so polite and kind, never would have thought this, must have had bad parents." Should that kid still have the right to reproduce when they obviously have the propensity to kill, proved they will, and may be passing on their illness to the child?

Is that okay for a society to allow?

What about those in prison? Why, in many places, do we say they've lost their right to have a physical relationship with their spouse and thus deny them the right to reproduce while they are in prison? Why is it wrong for a bank robber or repeated car thief to have children? If reproduction is a fundamental right of human functioning, the same as eating food, breathing air, etc., and can't be taken away even when it causes severe harm to a child, why do we take it away from ANYONE?

Aren't we effectively sterilizing those people by denying them physical relationships?

Like I said, it brought up a lot of thoughts.