I just read through a discussion of 'Libertarians and Abortion' via Facebook notes. I followed a link to an article which was slightly distasteful but included the following interesting paragraph:
"I may be wrong about this, but it strikes me that in a century or so, or maybe even less, we will be appalled that we allowed abortions at all. I do not mean that we should not allow them now; it is merely a suspicion that the advance of our knowledge about the life of a foetus, coupled with an improved ability to prevent conception, will mean that we will be mystified as to how such a primitive and brutal procedure could have become state-sanctioned and commonplace. I can see politicians in 2108 erecting monuments and offering apologies to the unborn dead — divorced from the reality of where we are now, and why. Apologising, in the manner of Tony Blair, with hindsight for crimes which were not considered crimes except by a furious and vengeful minority."
Source: http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/720926/part_2/a-century-from-now-we-will-be-appalled-that-we-allowed-abortions-at-all.thtml
My thoughts aren't ordered enough to comment on the topic as a whole just now. Late last year during CBS Core's anthropology and ethics lectures I'd carefully thought through the issue but the lovely structured argument I'd developed in my head now escapes me.
It's going to require a little more thinking before I will be satisfied with anything I have to say on abortion.
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