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November 09, 2005
Pointer to abortion essay
Jane Gelt over at Asymmetrical Information is a pretty good political writer (and a Libertarian to boot!), and I thought this short article was a gem of explaining why we continue to need to have the abortion debate in our country and not just settle into the two extreme camps.
The hard-core pro-choice side of the debate could be summed up as saying that right up until Mom shows up at the maternity ward to say "Hey, I'm ready to have this baby", what's in her tummy is a mere bundle of cells, and what happens to it is of no more interest to anyone (except her and her doctor) than what happens to her appendix.
The hard-core pro-life side of the debate could be summed up as saying that the instant sperm meets egg, a baby is created, and that abortion is as much murder as it would be if you met the fruit of that union on the street twenty years hence and shot him.
Most of what passes for "debate" on the issue is simply heated restatement of these core theorems: "Abortion is murder" and "A fetus is not a baby". And yet, almost no one on either side actually believes this.
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Politics by Dan at November 9, 2005 02:56 PM