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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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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