quote:Originally posted by Dan_Frank: What if a prisoner has a bag of heroin in his colon? They'll forcibly remove it, right?
I doubt it. Allowing it to pass through on its own in due time (with monitoring) is likely safest and least likely to spill contents internally, anyway. All official policy I've seen on this is to watch and wait with careful monitoring.
Or are you using the term "colon" to include "rectum"? Medically they are distinct areas, with the anal canal and distal portion of the rectal cavity being the parts accessed during a body cavity search.
quote:Okay, but we don't let prisoners do heroin, right?
Technically, I believe the laws prohibit a person (prisoner or not) from possessing heroin. Not taking it.
So do you support criminalizing owning abortion equipment, but not the actual act of having an abortion?
Otherwise, I'm not sure how the distinction is important.
If you criminalized the owning of abortion equipment then abortions could not be given even when it was necessary to save the mother's life.
My arguments are all based on the premise that abortions are sometimes morally justified.
Once you accept that, then you must ask who should be allowed to decide when an abortion is morally justified. I believe the mother should be the person allowed to make that decision.
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Yeah, that would be a consequence of criminalizing abortion equipment, that's true.
So, you're saying abortions are sometimes morally justified despite the fact that you think they are killing a person, right?
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