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It kind of amazes me that abortion, an issue largely applicable to a fairly narrow slice of the population, is an important issue in elections.

Most people considering terminating life within themselves are 1) female 2) young 3) pregnant unintentionally.

What percent of humans or voters fit this demographic?

While I believe extremely in medical privacy, and I’m not sure the Supreme Court was wrong to invent a right to privacy in Roe v Wade as a matter of humans rights (if technically improper jurisprudence), I think the real solution here is a constitutional amendment guaranteeing privacy that extends beyond personal papers and effects.

Human rights include commercial privacy. Full stop. If you can’t spend your money privately, you have essentially zero property and privacy rights.

It’s like guaranteeing right to free speech but taxing emission of sound waves into the atmosphere or ink for printing on paper or requiring ID to post text on the internet.
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bitbuybyte 1y ago

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.