08-13-2023, 10:06 AM
(08-13-2023, 08:46 AM)Dill Wrote: Rather than always trying to understand the abortion issue as about a genuine question of whether a fetus is a person, perhaps it is better to look at the complex structure of laws now being built around anti-abortion law primarily in terms of the kinds of social control in enables over both women's bodies and the medical profession, and for whom that control is enabled.
I'm not doubting the sincerity of the vast majority of people who are anti-abortion, but the legal engineering around the issue to extend state control beyond states and the like, plus convenient exceptions like the above, suggest a rather larger "agenda" than just saving unborn lives.
What that agenda might be I'm not sure, but it seems possible that enforcing a specific religious identity might be part of it, though people of different religious backgrounds might have very different ideas about what that should be. Just speculating here.
At least your speculating is nicer than my wife's. Her statement was "that fetus didn't matter because it wasn't white."
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