abortion

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>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

I'm concerned about logic, not logistics.  I'm saying that it's not 
logical for anyone to consider a fetus to be a baby without 
advocating putting women and abortion-providers behind bars, unless 
he is also saying that genocide is OK.
-- 
Yoshie

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