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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Replying to @HPluckrose
It really depends if their moral stance comes from a deeply religious and perhaps catholic view which forbids the use of bc- likely, or its a personal issue of moral which doesn’t wish to judge morality of sex behavior, just protect sanctity of life- unlikely.
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Replying to @Claire_Voltaire
I don't think it is unlikely, Claire, but this might be because I don't know many religious people but very many people who think abortion is wrong because they empathise with the embryo. Not many religious people here but many pro-lifers.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Claire_Voltaire
Even setting sentiment aside, it’s not at all clear to me that the universe in which ‘it’s just a bundle of unwanted cells’ is ethically or morally superior to one in which ‘it’s a complete person with all attendant rights’.
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Replying to @SaintTzu @Claire_Voltaire
Might be factually superior and this should inform our ethics? http://helenpluckroseblogs.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/my-position-on-abortion.html …
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Claire_Voltaire
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Here’s a brief expansion of my thoughts.https://twitter.com/sainttzu/status/954785526841823233 …
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I agree with your point that anything that stopped the process of ‘you’ would have been all the same in the end as far as you’re concerned. But I don’t think it follows that a society which allowed one way of ending things is therefore equivalent to one which took a different way
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Replying to @SaintTzu @Claire_Voltaire
I don't think it is. I think a society which allows women to terminate unwanted pregnancies is better to one that doesn't.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Claire_Voltaire
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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Also, I think we might agree that a society that offered free and regular checkups and early abortions would be a different and better place that one that practiced infant exposure as the way to deal with the issue.
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Or one that forced women to carry unwanted children to term and then care for them.
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