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Originally Posted by analog
A pill that will terminate a pregnancy, versus a pill that will not terminate a pregnancy, are of no significant "moral" difference? How the hell does that work?
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Well, it kinda works this way:
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In other words: If you find it ok that a one-day-old fertilized egg passes without implantation, but have a moral hangup about an egg the same one-day-old being pushed out if it's managed to implant already, this is the pill for you.
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Key words here: "the same one-day-old".
I can understand conception as the point - the necessary ingredients are joined and a birth, barring a natural or man-made interruption in the process, is inevitable. I can somewhat understand birth as the point, as the child is no longer biologically reliant on the mother. I can even kinda understand viability as the point, as it looks and acts too much like a human being to be easily dismissed as sub-human by most.
But what's so significant about implantation? Before, it's an embryo with no heartbeat. After, it's an embryo with no heartbeat. It looks like an arbitrary distinction to me. Morally speaking.
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I'm not building an entire personal anti-"Plan B" campaign based on erroneous information and foisting my moral judgment on others and demanding they adhere.
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Campaign? It's about as much of a campaign for me as it is for you, I'd guess. And I really don't recall making a moral judgment. You might interpret my arguments in favor of criminalization to be implicitly judgmental, but you'd be wrong.
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If someone says, "I won't use this because I feel _____" that is personal moral opinion- but when someone says to ban them outright for everyone, they're forcing their personal morals on others.
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And this argument makes perfect sense for things like porn and marijuana. But it doesn't make much sense when you're talking about the personal choice of infanticide. The debate's over whether Plan Bs are more like porn or more like infanticide. And the debate's over. Apparently, they're more like porn. You can put away your overly simplistic and irrelevant logic, it's not needed anymore.