I've been chewing on a thing and I want to write about it a bit but I need to, sadly, expose my object level beliefs in advance so that I am really clearly understood at the meta. I do not have strong feelings about abortion policy, apart from a very hard preference . . .
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as a thought experiment, let's try to come up with an analogous issue that applies solely to men. Not looking to mirror pregnancy/abortion, but come up with something about male bodily experience that could in principle be regulated in an overbearing way.
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how about: if you are sexually active, you must (by law) submit to having your genitals inspected (in a painful procedure) every time you have sex. under some situations a cop could instruct a doctor to castrate you. how passionate would you expect people to feel about this?
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this is not a perfect analogy and it probably isn't possible to come up with one (without resorting to sci-fi) because of biological asymmetry of the sexes. I think it kinda points the direction though. I think it's reasonable to be passionate about sexual and body autonomy
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The real tldr is: forced gestation is slavery. It's reasonable to very passionately give a shit about not being enslaved.
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I think that's a valid argument but I have seen many other valid arguments for pro-choice that are not that
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yeah, that's Sufficient to engender passionate feelings about the matter but is perhaps not Necessary.
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