Objection to medical and induction abortion get at the heart of PL's true belief: fetuses are entitled to your body
Exploring the PL claim that “letting die” is the same thing as killing them I've seen a PL counter argument to the "letting die" PC argument. The PC argument is about inducing a miscarriage or labor (or preventing implantation) on a non-viable embryo or fetus. When done on a non-viable embryo or fetus, the embryo or fetus is not directly touched or harmed. It is disconnected from the maternal body and it dies due to It's inability to carry out vital organ system function. The internal workings of the embryo are not directly interfered with – they are actually left solely to their own biological activities. In doing so, pregnancy is actually “intervening” in the course of events that would occur if an embryo were left solely to its own biological activities. Choosing not to intervene with someone's biological activities in a way that demands your own is not a violation of another human's rights. Plers try to get around this by speaking in euphemisms such as “...