[lbo-talk] abortion poll

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Mar 10 09:19:54 PST 2007


On Mar 10, 2007, at 8:08 AM, Andy F wrote:


> On 3/9/07, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> The reality is the chances of a woman deciding to abort for the
>> hell of
>> it are so exceedingly slim it makes little sense to object to it
>> unless
>> your objective is to open the door for addition restrictions based on
>> the legitimacy of a womans reasoning.
>
> The what-if-it's-"for the hell of it" argument reminds me of anti-porn
> arguments I heard in the late 90s: what about snuff films?

If you mean that neither exists, then you've got a point. I doubt there are very many women who'd have an abortion "for the hell of it." And no one has ever found an actual snuff film, right? So there's not much point in bringing either up.

Doug



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