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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?
Imo, that makes sense. There are all sorts of moral wrongs that the state shouldn't intervene to correct, many of which I don't think are inalienable rights. As with my example of tobacco, I think the sale of tobacco is morally wrong. It's addictive and dangerous, and the people who sell it know that. I dont think smoking is an inalienable right, but on balance I don't think the good you'd do by prohibiting it outweighs the negative consequences (organized crime taking over the trade).
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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See that is kind of where I'm at as well.
I am morally opposed to abortion, but even if we ignore the importance of bodily autonomy, banning abortion doesn't actually make abortion rates go down; in fact it might increase the rate, including the back alley stuff.
And then of course we simply cannot allow for a state that can dictate what people do with their bodies (except for vaccinations of course
), but that also ignores the potential of a fetus being viable at some point, and from a legal perspective how you deal with it. And while you can argue it both ways, Canada abortion laws are an outlier in comparison even to very progressive Europe, who definitely provides more protection to the unborn baby.
End of the day, we should focus on reducing the actual NEED for an abortion.
The rate should be next to zero.