[Mrs. Don-o]

"There are some who would follow up with the question, "Well, granted that the baby is not part of my body, still my womb definitely is: so why can't I eject an embryo or fetus from my womb, just as I would eject an invader from my property?"

You know, I've never heard it phrased like this before. Are there really people who think along these lines?

Yeah. there sure are. They are generally professional philosophers or medical ethicists.

As George Orwell once noted, some things are so preposterous that only "intellectuals" could believe in them.

Here's another Orwell quote I like: "We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

[Lexinom]

The tacit assumption is that the embryo just popped in there ex nihilo. All of the arguments on the other side seem to assume this, never questioning whether maybe, just maybe, the woman might, just might bear some of the responsibility for becoming pregnant in the first place. The arguments on both sides seem to overlook the father's responsibility in the matter.