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In reply to radgeekdotcom. (Good comparative references in the footnoted table here: WikiPedia: Abortion in Europe, and in this report from Center for Reproductive Rights: European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview.) LikeLike

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. IK: More important, why is it untoward? I wasn’t aware that the European norm was 15 weeks (legal norm or medical norm?), but … It’s a legal norm, and actually the legal situation is somewhat more restrictive even…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Irfan Khawaja: It’s impossible to provide “empirical evidence” for the supposition that Davenport’s boycott strategy will work … To be clear, I was not asking for empirical evidence that Davenport’s proposed boyco…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “Assessing how one’s life stacks up in terms of external goods is a relatively trivial or obvious matter. Assessing one’s own virtue is the more difficult one, where judgments might more likely go astray. One isn’t like…

I have a couple of issues with this post. Unless the government authorities invoked Locke, how could their decisions even remotely be dispositive of how Locke would have assessed the situation? Did Locke write specifically about the Native American situation in the colonies? If not, then there is no connective tissue whatsoever. Second, you referred…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. “If the consensus of virtue theorists is that most people are approximately virtuous, they would be likely to take self-assessments mirroring that judgment (Putative virtuous agent: ‘I am approximately virtuous&#8…

In reply to Michael Brazier. “In fact, were there any cases where a physician was charged with performing an abortion when he had actually presided over a natural miscarriage?” I don’t know about that, but I know that in the ore-Roe e…

Welcome back! It’s great to see your blog up and running again.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. The real irresponsibility arises from the desire to exploit this miniscule set of cases and turn it into a pseudo-rationale for biomedical police state in which every D&E becomes a presumptive act of murder, and every sur…