Carrol Cox wrote:
> > I think for a coherent mass progressive movement with staying power
> > leftists must not only support the right to abortion, they must campaign
> > against putting moral pressure on women. Abortion is no more a moral
> > issue than is vaccination or an appendectomy. Until the woman decides
> > otherwise the fetus is a parasite.
Dennis Perrin wrote:
> Soulless. Utterly soulless. But then, given the above's approval of mass
> graves and ethnic slaughter, this statement is par for the coarse.
An ad hominem against Carroll doesn't make abortion wrong, though. Carroll's and Gordon's points are correct. If we are going to say that abortion shouldn't be criminalized due simply to logistical concerns (Yoshie) or because "it won't work" (Dennis), then we're still not addressing the deeper moral/ethical issue. And Gordon and Carroll did just that - sufficiently.
Brian
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." - Friedrich Nietzsche