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(Policy of Truth) Davenport: “Boycott Anti-Choice States”
John Davenport has a nice piece in Ms. magazine, “Fight Abortion Bans by Boycotting Anti-Choice States” (July 21). I couldn’t agree more. It’s so good–for a change–to encounter an advocate of boycotts who isn’t me. Nothing talks louder than money in the U.S. With over half of states on their way to banning abortion, the…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Fireside Friday, July 22, 2022
Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the next post in the logistics and foraging series ready to go for this week but we are also moving house next week and a number of things related to that have gotten in the way. One of those things was Ollie: For this week’s musing, I…
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( Comments for ProSocial Libertarians ) Comment on Libertarianism and Abortion by Irfan Khawaja
I agree with the commenters here who have questioned the reasonability of a ban on abortions at or after the eighth month, essentially for the reasons they give. This is a useful fact sheet: https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/fact-sheet/abortions-later-in-pregnancy/
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Molinari Review I.2: What Lies Within? by GeorgeDialp
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( Comments for ProSocial Libertarians ) Comment on Libertarianism and Abortion by Carl Milsted
What I mean by “gross wrongness” is wrongness without making other considerations. Shooting people is a gross wrongness, but shooting a mass shooter in progress is a net goodness, as stopping the mass shooter produces more good than the wrongness of shooting someone.
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( Comments for ProSocial Libertarians ) Comment on Libertarianism and Abortion by Andrew Jason Cohen
In reply to <a href=”https://prosociallibertarians.com/2022/07/18/libertarianism-and-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-249″>Carl Milsted</a>. I think it helps to distinguish between humans and persons. If there are aliens flying around in space, they are likely persons but not likely humans. I take “human” to be a biological category that includes me and you, babies, the elderly, and yes, fetuses and dead humans. I…
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(Pixie Trix Comix) Pixie Trix Comix – After years of nothing
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( Comments for ProSocial Libertarians ) Comment on Libertarianism and Abortion by Carl Milsted
There are several ways to address the dilemma. One is to accept that the definition of human is fuzzy. Is a 8 month old fetus a human? How about a 2 year old toddler? How about today’s Joe Biden? None of these are viable tissue masses on their own. (How many humans are truly viable…
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( Comments for ProSocial Libertarians ) Comment on Libertarianism and Abortion by Andrew Jason Cohen
In reply to <a href=”https://prosociallibertarians.com/2022/07/18/libertarianism-and-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-245″>Dale Miller</a>. I take it as obvious that if she is forced to be pregnant, there was a harm and that if termination of the pregnancy helps rectify the harm, it is permissible. I think cases of “being forced to remain pregnant” are significantly more difficult–and part of why I ultimately…
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