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briandmyers · 3765 days ago · link · · parent · post: Let's talk about two things they say never to talk about:
1. Pro-choice. In my opinion, to believe otherwise, you need to start granting citizenship rights to the unborn, and allow their rights to trample the rights of the person carrying that unborn. It leads to unacceptable state power over the baby-carrier. Personally I care not about how late-term it is; if the mother's okay with it, why not? As long as she's not obviously incompetent (and possibly even if she is), I see little societal harm in leaving the decision entirely up to her.
2. Anti. There are too many mistakes made, to justify allowing the state to take anyone's one-and-only life. Again, to believe otherwise is to (in my opinion) grant the state more power than it ought to have.