# Is it possible to be Pro-Choice AND think that fetus=baby?

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**Created:** [May 6, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-be-pro-choice-and-think-that-fetus-baby/581013 "2011-05-06T21:23:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-be-pro-choice-and-think-that-fetus-baby/581013/38 "2011-05-07T02:36:08Z")

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So am I the only one who thinks, that in the Violinist argument, I do have a moral duty to stay hooked up to the violinist? Don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t be happy that this happened to me. I wouldn’t want it to happen, and I wouldn’t volunteer to hook myself up to the violinist. I can’t even guarantee I would stay hooked up to the violinist. But it seems to me that if I am hooked up to the violinist, I have a kind of moral obligation to stay hooked up, if I know unhooking myself will kill him.

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