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		andsoitis on July 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Texas Freedom Caucus Warns of Illegality for Compa... If an unborn child is really independent of the mother's body, then you should be able to take it out - it is independent after all! If it doesn't belong to my body, what responsibility do I have for it?

realjhol on July 10, 2022 [–]

He didn't say it was independent- no child is independent and would survive without adults to depend upon until that child is maybe 16 years old.

He said the child is distinct from its mother's body from conception. Which is correct.

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