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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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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29

    This is an unpopular view among my fellow liberals but think twice before assuming a pro-lifer is anti female sexual freedom. They may be but there is also an intuitive objection to abortion which is on the very liberal care/harm foundation. Note I said 'intuitive', not rational.

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      2. Oliver's Army‏ @randallpink13 Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Evidence? I don't think this is a real thing any live human being believes.

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @randallpink13

        Which? That people oppose abortion because they think women should not be having casual sex? Or that people oppose abortion because they think of foetuses as babies who are being killed?

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      4. Oliver's Army‏ @randallpink13 Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        That there are people who oppose abortion, but also think casual sex is fine. I mean there might be one, but I can't believe there are many.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @randallpink13

        LOL! Come to England.

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      6. Oliver's Army‏ @randallpink13 Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Maybe. Show me valid polling data and I'm prepared to change my mind. Until then I don't believe it.

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      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @randallpink13

        Well, until there are some studies checking correlation of people who think abortion is wrong and people who think casual sex is wrong, I can only suggest talking to more pro-lifers from all around the world.

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      8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose @randallpink13

        This seems like a very American thing to me. I don't actually know any anti-sex people but I know many who think of foetuses as babies and abortion as killing babies.

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      2. Samantha Jane Geimer‏ @sjgeimer Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        they are just anti female freedom

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @sjgeimer

        I disagree for the reasons I gave. Asserting the opposite isn't much good. Give a reason why you disagree.

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      4. Samantha Jane Geimer‏ @sjgeimer Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Demanding control of another woman's body, using laws and legal consequence that will leave a pregnant woman with less bodily autonomy than a corpse is the deepest way to rob her of freedom. If you're anti abortion and act on that only by not having one would be the exception.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @sjgeimer

        But we're talking about motivations for opposing abortion. Whether its because you want to control women's sexuality or because you think of embryos as babies and motivated by a misguided protective empathy.

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      6. Samantha Jane Geimer‏ @sjgeimer Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        As long as your "reasons" only apply to you. We do not accept misguided protective empathy for scientific fact when we are talking about public health and a persons right to control the use of their own body. People in America are free to do things others think are wrong.

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      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @sjgeimer

        This again is a different argument to motivations. I am talking about motivations and you entered the conversation by saying the motivation was to control women's sexuality.

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      8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose @sjgeimer

        Also, not everybody on the internet is in America.

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      9. Samantha Jane Geimer‏ @sjgeimer Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        also true, I am seeing through a paradigm of being where I am.

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      2. EmanatingPenumbra‏ @WildlyMediocre Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        This probably isn't the thread to respond to, but on the "rational" question; does your consciousness-focused ethics system differentiate between instant, painless killing (or killing while asleep), and inflicting pain on a conscious individual? If the former is unethical, why?

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @WildlyMediocre

        http://helenpluckroseblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/my-position-on-abortion.html …

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      4. EmanatingPenumbra‏ @WildlyMediocre Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I've read your blog post, hence my question. If inflicting pain is the defining criterion, is painless killing unethical?

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @WildlyMediocre

        Read the first paragraph again about how this is a different issue and why.

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      6. EmanatingPenumbra‏ @WildlyMediocre Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        If your position is that a fetus's dependency places it in a unique paradigm, why doesnt that apply to any other dependency relationship? Moreover, why does it necessarily follow that consciousness (rather than anything else) is the absolute moral heuristic in this new paradigm?

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      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @WildlyMediocre

        It does. If anyone's life depended upon another person letting them take ownership of their body for several months, that person must have the right to say no.

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      8. EmanatingPenumbra‏ @WildlyMediocre Jan 29
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        There's a wide variety of relationships of dependency; is selecting this one as sufficient to grant an absolute veto but not any other non-arbitrary? Your choices aren't unreasonable, but they don't seem logically compelled

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      9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 29
        Replying to @WildlyMediocre

        Not really. Quite black and white. No-one has the right to demand anyone else physically support their existence.

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