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Replying to @BretWeinstein
— I have to believe bright-liners are just signaling. Nobody of sound mind would rush into a burning fertility clinic to rescue the embryos rather than the staff/patients, nor consider it fine for a woman to induce at 24 weeks & birth a disabled child just to be done with it.2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes -
Replying to @webdevMason @BretWeinstein
How many of the 64+ million abortions would fit into those categories though. And if you won’t accept the bright lines, which circular-reasoning-based line will you adopt?
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Replying to @Jvmitsgoodtohav @BretWeinstein
It's possible to argue that a *legal* bright line works because edge cases are so rare that the practical outcome is desirable. But in that case, you're favoring a somewhat more nuanced rule; you're just not stating it explicitly because you don't know precisely what it is.
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Replying to @webdevMason @BretWeinstein
It strikes me as odd though. Those edge cases are shots in the dark. There’s a very real possibility that they represent a tragic miscalculation. It seems odd to just pick a line, heartbeat, pain, brain activity, and be at peace.
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Yep, because most of us have something we care about in fetal development that isn't "technically alive + biologically human" or "bodily autonomy," but we also don't know *precisely* how to describe it (and even if we did, medically evaluating such things is a work in progress)
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