• Flax@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    Unironically should be legal. I think pregnant women should be able to claim child benefit, too.

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      3 months ago

      According to the article linked by another commenter, it literally is.

      She was ticketed, but it was then dismissed in court, because she was right.

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          2 months ago

          And those unborn people should be able to be killed if the mother doesn’t want them. As long as they require her body to stay alive.

          As nobody should be able to force what an other person does with the things in their body.

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      3 months ago

      Definitely think you should be able to claim fetuses on taxes if you are pregnant pregnant more than half the year.

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          2 months ago

          I had thought about that, but also thought about how that would be spun by conservative pundits.

          Clearly, women will get pregnant once a year for the tax benefits of having a child, and then abort it.

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      3 months ago

      Does this apply further, though? If a car is registered for 4 passengers, would a fetus count towards that total?

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          3 months ago

          Maybe it’s not a US-thing? Cars in Norway have a registered numbers of seats specified in the car’s registration, so I just assumed this was a general thing.

          • Flax@feddit.uk
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            3 months ago

            I don’t live in the US. Although if it is registered seats, the seat is inside the mother, who is the vehicle for the baby, not the car