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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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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It does feel like we need to say that but this really shows bias. We feel no need to say that allowing people to carry babies to term is not the same as encouraging it or celebrating it.
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I know that this is substantially different because becoming a parent is something most people are excited about and an abortion is a surgical procedure to resolve a problem but on an ethical level choosing to continue or end a pregnancy should be neutral.
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I’m not convinced it should be ethically neutral, but I do think it should be neutral as a matter of public policy. When advocating for such a policy we should consider the fears and ethical intuitions of those we wish to persuade.
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Agreed.
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