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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Jan 2017

      Yes, more women are 'pro-life' but I think the motivation is often much less political (or competitive) than claimed. (I am pro-choice)

      5 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      So often it's assumed to be a wish to control women's sexuality for religious, political, ideological or competitive reasons.

      2 replies 5 retweets 6 likes
    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Ppl overlook the power of empathy & projection on the part of ppl who have gestated foetuses of their own & thought of them as 'babies.'

      6 replies 2 retweets 7 likes
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      And we do this a lot. 'The baby is the size of a pea' at six weeks. 'I lost the baby' abt a first trimester miscarriage.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      It's very normal to feel protectiveness & even love for an embryo thought of as a baby & deep grief if it is lost.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 27 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      This matters because it shld influence how we try to get through to pro-lifers trying to obstruct reproductive freedom & change their minds.

      3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    7. CK‏ @cek0001 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Similar to euthanasia, with abortion, atheists cannot support a sanctity of life argument. By dehumanising the subject >>

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    8. CK‏ @cek0001 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @cek0001 @HPluckrose

      >> we strive to be pragmatic & act in the individuals best interests without recognising the emotional harm & destructiveness

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    9. CK‏ @cek0001 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @cek0001 @HPluckrose

      At what point does life devalue with age or accrue value in the womb, to enable these decisions to be made without conscience?

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Jan 2017
      Replying to @cek0001

      Conscience varies with values. Mine on abortion. http://helenpluckroseblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/my-position-on-abortion.html … People decide whether their own lives have value or not.

      1:27 PM - 28 Jan 2017
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        2. CK‏ @cek0001 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Is Pro-life/ choice divide based on physical development? By dehumanising embryos we lower the value of life easing consciences

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @cek0001

          Or that could just be a more reasonable line for human rights than conception?

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        4. CK‏ @cek0001 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          They could not indeed dovetail. Even my own view of limitations to abortions timing, are strongly against pro-life advocates

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @cek0001

          Sorry? Ppl have a basis for when its OK to deny a potential person life. Where the line is.Brain development seems the most ethical

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        6. CK‏ @cek0001 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Who knows? We think physical development & pro-life think beyond physical to the soul from conception. There is No middle ground

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @cek0001

          There are many other positions. Not everyone who is pro-life believes in a soul. Many believe abstinence & contraception wrong too.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @cek0001

          If a soul exists, abortion cld be the best thing for an embryo if it will go to heaven never having sinned. If not,they don't exist

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        9. CK‏ @cek0001 28 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Still murder but have heard this French philosophers view of despatching at birth. Nice thought - baptise - boom! Heaven.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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