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by picofarad 10 days ago
I am pro-choice, but really I'm hoping there is enough advancement in medicine to "fix" genetic issues and the sorts of things people would terminate after a positive test result.

If that is actually possible someday, legitimately, I am switching to pro-life.

With only rape/incest or mother's certain death as reasons for termination.

I realise this is a weird and nuanced take, but I was adopted and it was back when they forced the mother to keep the kid for 6 months before they'd place tbe kid. Puritanical nonsense?

Make it so accidental pregnancy is 0.0001% (a thousand times less likely than perfect condom and pill/IUD use;) and the above "can fix", and what reason would there be to terminate?

I am anti-death penalty too.

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If you feel that abortion is killing an otherwise viable human being, then you should be pro-life now. Especially if you're anti-death penalty and feel that no one should die for any reason. On the other hand if there are any reasons why abortion would be ok, why aren't all reasons ok? Either it's wrong or it's not, and if you are on the pro-life side why should a child be punished because of how it was conceived? On the other hand, if you believe that a non-viable fetus is not a live human being, the decision to stop before it gets to that point is independent of any reasoning

Having conditions on abortion are completely nonsensical and irrational. I don't get it