Bourgeois pigs kill suicidal 16 year old boy.

[kandrathe]

Your claims above about hammers are missing an important nuance - choice.

I break it down to harms. No harm, no foul.

The difficulty with things like parental rights is that we as society need to protect citizens while they are children, against harmful parenting. With abortion, the nuance is deciding at what point a fetus is a citizen. We have set the bar higher than allowing parents to eliminate their unwanted children. The law is vague on feticide.

Basing it on viability is one option, however there are fully grown people who are comatose and sustained by technology (akin to an incubator), so I'm not sure viability is purely the gauge either. I would be happy if the government would define person and citizen clearly in the context of what we know scientifically.