Lemme try this again. I missed something earlier that's key:
What's the wedge that lets you accept quarantining people with infectious diseases but not accept preventing very late-term abortions? They are both instances of someone other than X having a say with what X does to their body with the purported goal of protecting Y.
I'm confused on a few things, so let me resort to bullet points.
1. Stupid question #1: what do you mean by "wedge"? :)
2. I think quarantines are necessary, are fine, are legal, are a good thing. (Okay, devil in the detail with regards to implementation, but I'll gloss over that.)
3. I think late-term abortion should be legal. I may disagree with the reasons a woman chooses to have one; I might shun her because of that decision. But I think it should be legal. (Actually, I'm pretty certain I have absolutely no idea why a woman would choose to have a late-term abortion, so mostly I think I should first discreetly learn why this option was taken and try to understand that.)
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I think earlier this morning, I thought you were asking a different question, which is why you got a response that doesn't really make sense to either of us now. :)
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Date: 2011-09-28 05:15 pm (UTC)What's the wedge that lets you accept quarantining people with infectious diseases but not accept preventing very late-term abortions? They are both instances of someone other than X having a say with what X does to their body with the purported goal of protecting Y.
I'm confused on a few things, so let me resort to bullet points.
1. Stupid question #1: what do you mean by "wedge"? :)
2. I think quarantines are necessary, are fine, are legal, are a good thing. (Okay, devil in the detail with regards to implementation, but I'll gloss over that.)
3. I think late-term abortion should be legal. I may disagree with the reasons a woman chooses to have one; I might shun her because of that decision. But I think it should be legal. (Actually, I'm pretty certain I have absolutely no idea why a woman would choose to have a late-term abortion, so mostly I think I should first discreetly learn why this option was taken and try to understand that.)
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I think earlier this morning, I thought you were asking a different question, which is why you got a response that doesn't really make sense to either of us now. :)