Unless you live in a third world country where pregnancy might seriously be considered a death warrant, there is little need for this kind of hyperbole.
Yes, sometimes the occasion arises even in first world countries where a pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, and if we were discussing that and that alone then you would have a point. But the vast majority of abortions are not these cases. Pregnancy in a first world country is
The comparison to Never Let Me Go differs significantly in that the dependency in the film is orchestrated, an imposition of man, not of biological nature, which is a prima facie violation which does not exist in the case of naturally arising pregnancy. The existence of the dependency is not one of a malicious man-made artifice, and the justification for maintaining a dependency that is naturally arising cannot be transferred (with intellectual honesty on the part of anyone attempting to do so) to one that is. There is no slippery slope here.
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Date: 2/9/11 00:03 (UTC)Yes, sometimes the occasion arises even in first world countries where a pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, and if we were discussing that and that alone then you would have a point. But the vast majority of abortions are not these cases. Pregnancy in a first world country is
The comparison to Never Let Me Go differs significantly in that the dependency in the film is orchestrated, an imposition of man, not of biological nature, which is a prima facie violation which does not exist in the case of naturally arising pregnancy. The existence of the dependency is not one of a malicious man-made artifice, and the justification for maintaining a dependency that is naturally arising cannot be transferred (with intellectual honesty on the part of anyone attempting to do so) to one that is. There is no slippery slope here.