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by mixdup 3 days ago
>Is aborting because of an LLM „likelihood“ of some genetic issue (that might lead or not lead to an short or unhappy life) the same as aborting after rape for you?

Yes. Because if you think it's wrong to end a pregnancy, what does it matter how it started or why you want to end it? The rationale behind being "pro-life" is that you feel abortion is killing a child. I happen to believe that a non-viable fetus is not a child, so I am supportive of a woman's right to manage her reproductive system as she so chooses, and therefore it doesn't matter why a woman wants to end a pregnancy--from rape or incest, doesn't want to have a child right now, doesn't want a child with a genetic deformity, or doesn't want a child with blonde hair--it doesn't matter.

On the other hand, if you felt that it was "murder" why would there be any reason good enough to justify murder? The only justifiable reason to kill another human being is in self-defense. A woman who was raped won't be "un-raped" because she is no longer carrying the baby. That sounds harsh, but of course I think it is BS because the whole anti-abortion argument is largely BS.