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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
exactly. which is why really, abortion should be legal until birth.
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Or the other path, the one I favor, illegal no matter the stage of development.
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Originally Posted by Elphaba
I strongly oppose politicians attempting to legislate medical procedures or someone's moral vision on the entire populace. Whenever politicians have attempted to do so, they produced a black market in what they were trying to prevent. Prohibition, the illegality of abortion prior to Roe v. Wade, and medical marijuana are cases in point.
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You're not going to eliminate crimes by passing laws against them. I recognize that. I'm not against Prohibition because it failed, I'm not against medical marijuana because it found a black market niche. I'm against both of them because I don't think there's sufficient reason for those substances to be illegal. Regulated to some extent, but not illegal. But if something
should be the government's business and the government isn't doing a good job of curtailing what it aims to, the answer is not to give up. The answer is to find ways to do better.
The nasty habit of imposing moral visions on entire populations enables us to curtail practices such as theft, assault, and murder. The question is not whether to impose, but what to impose.