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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for the continued legality of technology-assisted reproduction and associated research. Okay. SO that out of the way . . . I'm puzzled by the intensity of feelings about this matter from the prochoice camp. If you believe that abortion is murder, it makes a lot of sense to me
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that your advocacy against abortion would be strident and encompassing. I don't think there's much to explain there. What I don't entirely understand (and I am not dismissing, rather trying to grapple with) the proportionate sentimental intensity from the prochoice camp.
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I'm trying to be a good Chamberlinian scientist and so I have multiple working hypotheses (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/148/3671/754 …). One is that there are values at play on the prochoice side that I don't understand or share (perhaps). Another (more interesting, I think) is that . . .
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in any political conflict, there might be a sort of van der Waals force, where intensity from one side induces a proportionate passion from the other that might not otherwise manifest. This second possibility has Broader Implications. Hm
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Why do you think pro-choicers should not see it as a vital issue? From their perspective - okay, it's not literally murder, but it's temporarily disabling. Maybe the equivalent of people having their arms broken for the crime of having sex.
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Replying to @adrwtp
Even in a dramatic case of abortion being outlawed nationally, most bad outcomes (vs status quo ante) could and probably would be averted by behavioral adaptation. Contrast w other policies that definitely kill lots of people that are not similarly opposed by hard prochoice folx
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Ah yes. Banning abortion might seem to lead to more (presumably happy) lives, but actually just leads to people having less sex. Hence we should permit abortion for everyone except rape victims.
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aaaaghhhhhh! I am not making any argument on policy and certainly not those Bad Arguments ^^
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