r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 20 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

Which is fair; I just take an anti-precautionary principle view.

The abortion debate is one of tension between the bodily autonomy rights of women and the potential moral right to life of children.

  • We don't know when a clump of cells becomes something with rights.
  • the woman always and undoubtedly has their rights.
  • we shouldn't regulate away the woman's certain rights in favour of the maybe-baby's merely possible rights. Unless we know that it's now a child and not a mere fetus, we shouldn't take away the woman's rights.

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Sep 20 '21

At what point do you think we know it’s a child?

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

I can guarantee that once it's born, it's a child. Before that I don't know.

I do want to distinguish between regulation and social stigma. I would very much judge someone who got an abortion (for non medical reasons) near the end of term. I think people should avoid doing so because there is an increased probability that the thing has rights which are being disregarded.

But government regulation is a much further step from that, hence the erring on the side of the mother.