Me neither. Seems to be vaguely implying life-saving necessity. But I'm not sure.
I thought so. I have the same emotional reaction because I thought of my foetuses as babies. Don't think the government intrudes tho.
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A good government provides the option to terminate a pregnancy and a safety net so women don't feel they must terminate coz can't provide.
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A lot of religious conservatives here want to outlaw it and use legislative slights of hand to do so. They also try to cut social programs.
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I know. I see your motivations are different. You don't want to feel complicit in it by helping fund it & wld rather help support families?
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I think this is still a mistake based on a emotional response coz in reality, abortion has same effect as contraception for potential child.
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Yes. Especially because abortions done for reproductive choice reasons almost always happen very early in pregnancy.
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We have evolved a tendency to see taking something away as more serious than failing to give it despite consequences being the same.
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It seems it served us better to put more effort into avoiding loss than seeking gain and moral intuitions formed around this.
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Interesting studies done on this but never applied to the difference between not starting a pregnancy & ending one before consciousness.
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We disagree on that. I can see where you're coming from but I believe you are mistaken.
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