there can’t be a genetic disposition to abortion - there can be a genetic disposition to anxiety or depression but they’d have to identify the mechanism for that
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"propensities for abortion" don't exist
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Traits that lead people to be more likely to get abortions do exist.
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possessing a vagina makes you more likely to wear a wedding dress
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Behaviors don't come out of nowhere. They're not totally random.
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Some people (like
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for “genetic confounding” to be justified you’d have to identify genes that dispose one to have an abortion and to develop an anxiety disorder, dispose one to have an abortion independently of disposing one to develop an anxiety disorder, and vice versa
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Here: you need the First, Fourth, and Fifth laws: https://www.unz.com/jman/the-five-laws-of-behavioral-genetics/ …
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asserting that genes explain variation in incidences of abortion (how would that work?) doesn’t establish confounding
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I'm aware. Though JayMan is making assumptions about the EEA. We can't know what the EEA was like.
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