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You generally have very based/well thought out takes, but this one is quite shallow.

The protection of life is foundational to any society. Protection of that life is the responsibility of all.

It is sad that a baby’s future in the womb can be determined by a democratic mob rule. So many things have failed, and so many people have abdicated responsibility up to that point if the mother (the one who should most want to protect it) turns away.

Protection of life shouldn’t have to be legislated at all, but propaganda runs deep.
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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 1y ago

No, this is a deep take, not a shallow one, but you may have missed the point.

The real issue here is whether it is wise to permit government access to private knowledge about our bodies. Everyone has an opinion here, which is why it’s a political issue, but my moral rejection of abortion as flat out equivalent to murder has nothing to do with the fact that I don’t believe the government should be given private medical data to prosecute such crimes.

Something can be morally objectionable and this doesn’t mean we should grant government powers specifically forbidden (such as unlawful search and seizure) to it just because we object to feticide.

Feticide is bad. Giving government the powers needed to prosecute feticide has a lot of downsides.

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bitbuybyte 1y ago

I guess I did miss the point. I don’t disagree with anything on said there.

I think a lot of the current issues (they have become politicized especially) would be solved by a proper government as described in ‘The Law’ as I mentioned earlier.

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Dr. Bitcoin, MD 1y ago

They use the horror of abortion to rile people up and make them not think of what would be required for government to apply laws against it.

I am a radiologist; while I often biopsy and every once in a while cure disease, 95% of what I do is simply tell others what’s going on inside their patient.

I would choose prison over testifying against a patient regarding what I saw inside them—unless it somehow would avoid _imminent/impending_ death or severe harm…To me, any law requiring me to act to the contrary is itself null and void.