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   * "Perhaps a pregnant woman is vaguely felt to have the status of house, to which we don't allow the right of self-defense."   * "Perhaps a pregnant woman is vaguely felt to have the status of house, to which we don't allow the right of self-defense."
   * Indeed, in what pregnancy could it be supposed that the mother has given the unborn person such a right? It is not as if there are unborn persons drifting about the world, to whom a woman who wants a child says I invite you in."   * Indeed, in what pregnancy could it be supposed that the mother has given the unborn person such a right? It is not as if there are unborn persons drifting about the world, to whom a woman who wants a child says I invite you in."
 +  * Counter-example: aborting a baby who was purposefully conceived via IVF and then implanted. If that doesn't constitute "consent to pregnancy", I'm not sure what would 
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   * "a burglar"   * "a burglar"
   * "If a set of parents do not try to prevent pregnancy, do not obtain an abortion, but rather take it home with them, then they have assumed responsibility for it, they have given it rights, and they cannot now withdraw support from it at the cost of its life because they now find it difficult to go on providing for it."   * "If a set of parents do not try to prevent pregnancy, do not obtain an abortion, but rather take it home with them, then they have assumed responsibility for it, they have given it rights, and they cannot now withdraw support from it at the cost of its life because they now find it difficult to go on providing for it."