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To: The Philosopher who wrote (3828)1/16/2003 12:30:58 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
It could be said that making abortion illegal would favorably affect median personal responsibility in that it makes a statement that abortion is a bad thing. That could affect some who simply never pondered the morality of abortion so they never considered birth control or abstinence. I don't know how large a subset of the potential abortions that might be. I wouldn't think that there are that many women who live in caves and have never heard of the issue or who have such an external center of control, as Jewel might say, that they would be persuaded by the illegality.

As long as the laws don't prosecute women who have abortions but only those who perform them, I can't imagine them doing much for personal responsibility. If you want to come at this from a personal responsibility perspective, seems to me that you need to throw women in jail. But no one seems to have the balls to propose that. I would respect the them more if they did. As the proposals stand now, they would only "bring more misery" IMO.
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