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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Do you think there might be a place on the allowing side that’s just as far off the mark as the forbidding one? I mean, the people who want to hold a Freedom Party and get a tattoo to celebrate getting an abortion, for instance.
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I think the equivalent of the forbidding abortion position would be forbidding not having an abortion. People can celebrate having an abortion if they want even if others find it distasteful. They can tolerate it like atheists must tolerate people celebrating being 'saved' etc
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You mentioned forbidding vs allowing as a society. I think you can consider allowing as a middle ground between forbidding and celebrating or encouraging. I agree that allowing abortion is better than forbidding, all other things equal.
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I'd be wary tho. I think people should be allowed to celebrate their reproductive decisions. I would not be at all happy with saying 'You're allowed to decide for or against abortion' but celebrating either is wrong. I celebrated my decision to bring a pregnancy to term.
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We’re (or at least I was) speaking about the general attitude or approach of a society, not just some individuals who may well not reflect the society at large.
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I havent known a society which celebrated abortion tho. Advertised it as a positive good, had party traditions around it, had TV shows which focused on abortion as a party theme. Generally, its a private and sad thing.
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Yes, such a thing has not yet appeared. However there are small groups of people like this, and, as is the nature of the present age, they are greatly magnified by the anti-abortion demagogues as personifying the world liberals want.
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I think we generally agree about where the balance should be struck, at least for now. But if we want to make the case for that position we must, I think, take some pains to say that allowing abortion is not the same thing as encouraging or celebrating it.
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