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Originally posted by bilmore
Grandma's kind of a pain, too, and her meds are getting expensive, and the kids really want that new four-wheeler . . .
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I expected you to end this with "so that's when I decided it was OK to eat old people."
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Yeah, I know that's facile, but I don't think it's dissimilar from that particular justification. I think there does need to be some bright-line test, not subject to whim or vaguary. I have no idea what that test should be, of course.
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LDE translator: "(subject to certain limitations)" = we need a test.
I wasn't making a justification for abortion as a concept. I was trying to point out that it wasn't intellectually dishonest to set the test at viability.
I don't support a person's right to abort just because they forgot to use a condom. I do support the right of a woman to abort a not-yet-viable unplanned fetus because it would cause severe social and economic distress if the woman was forced to carry to term. I base that,
in part (please note, Not Me), on the fact that we as a society do a crappy job of addressing the problems of kids born into poor and broken homes.
