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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Right now I believe in Canada we have a failure to prohibit abortion, not a legal right to it, is that correct?
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That is not correct. We have a legal right to abortion, derived from the right to life, liberty and security of the person, enshrined in Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It's not that there's a failure to prohibit abortion, it's
illegal to prohibit abortion - the government had a criminal law on the books, and that law was struck down.
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From a "greatest good" perspective, I think the back alley abortions you'd get by prohibiting would offset the lives saved.
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That's my point - if this is the reason you're against an abortion prohibition, the implication is that if the "back alley abortions problem" could, practically, be solved so that it
doesn't offset the lives saved, you would then be fine with a prohibition on abortion. You're entitled to that view, but I don't think it's a view held by most pro-choice people.