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To: TimF who wrote (1407)8/2/2008 2:56:18 PM
From: one_less   of 3816
 
This has the ring of truth to it.

"The interesting question he doesn't ask is what this would do to the politics of parenting. Pro-choice advocates don't talk so much about the right not to be a parent; they focus on the right to control your own body. That's also where the constitutional law seems to be focused, or so I read the right to privacy. The minute you can take an aborted fetus and put it in an artificial womb, that argument falls away, and we get down to what pro-choicers really care about: not having a kid. I'm not saying that pregnancy is minor, but most people don't have an abortion because they don't want to be pregnant; they have abortions because they don't want to have a kid, or at least not this kid right now."

I'd like to hear from some strong pro-choice advocates on this but I don't think there are any currently participating on this thread.

I think it is a complicated issue. I can personally go back and forth on it. I see how some people screw up other people when stuck in parenting roles they don't value.

Personally, I love parenting and believe I am very good at it but I am older than parents are supposed to be when they start with a new kid and don't have the funds to start parenting young kids. If I did, I'd be happy to parent as many as I could reasonably manage.
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