Entirely elective would be hard to define tho. What measure would you have for deciding whether a decision was purely a personal choice?
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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I'm not mistaken in the facts. Contraception & abortion both prevent specific sperms & eggs from becoming people.
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It just feels more like taking that potentiality away when it is done by abortion than by contraception or by abstinence.
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I am not denying that my objection is moral and that the reality is complex.
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