I am pro-choice & think that life begins at birth, but this argument is fallacious. Even if you believed that life begins at conception, you could coherently claim that this baby is physically still a baby and cannot safely take alcohol
Age for legal purposes generally begins counting at birth, even for people whose cells have been active, and whose organs and such have been growing and maturing for longer than that.
If you could put a baby into suspended animation of some form, and return it to usual biological function 25 years later, there might be a real legal issue. As it stands, I don’t see it.
When someone asks me my age and I feel like being a smartass, I tell them I’m “younger than my tongue, older than teeth”. Sometimes I sub “asshole” for “tongue” depending on my mood
I am pro-choice & think that life begins at birth, but this argument is fallacious. Even if you believed that life begins at conception, you could coherently claim that this baby is physically still a baby and cannot safely take alcohol
Safely? No.
Legally though?
And what about hilariously? When did we start leaving that one out?
Did you go to little Bobby Two Pints’s birthday party? The little shit falls asleep after two pints of whiskey. Wimp.
Same thing. You don’t see
nazispro-lifers saying their newborn child is 9 months oldAge for legal purposes generally begins counting at birth, even for people whose cells have been active, and whose organs and such have been growing and maturing for longer than that.
If you could put a baby into suspended animation of some form, and return it to usual biological function 25 years later, there might be a real legal issue. As it stands, I don’t see it.
When someone asks me my age and I feel like being a smartass, I tell them I’m “younger than my tongue, older than teeth”. Sometimes I sub “asshole” for “tongue” depending on my mood