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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
There are very, very few late-term abortions. And 100% of the ones there are, are assumed to have a compelling medical reason behind them.
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Okay. And now we're back to "very few isn't zero", and the target number is zero, for anyone who thinks it's baby murder, so your argument does no useful work. But to be fair, I bet you're right about the compelling medical reason - I think the response to that would be "okay, just outlaw it but have a carve-out for any compelling medical reason, given that you've apparently acknowledged that that's a consideration worth paying attention to."
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I'm not making a utilitarian argument. Perhaps the use of the word "Harm" got you.
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Well, yeah, it would... also the fact that you explicitly said that the problem is that outlawing abortion is harmful to the woman in question, and that if someone could demonstrate to your satisfaction that there was other harm that outweighed it, that would be a relevant consideration, but no one has done so. Which is inherently a utilitarian argument.
But hey, maybe I misunderstood you.