mkeiyd wrote:Does legalizing abortion mean people will just have them anyhow? As much as we would want ladies to carry pregnancy to term, there are benefits that abortion do bring,to specific group[s] of people.
Wholesome condemnation won't help anyone.
Picture a commercial sex worker who gets pregnant accidentally,what is she to do? Your guess is as good as mine if all pregnancies were to have been carried to term.
All i know, things would be uglier for such groups n society in general.
What does it mean when someone says that there is such thing as an accidental pregnancy?
No doubt, a conceptual model based on the individual as the center of action, and intention, has this possibility.
But what if we used a model focused on conversation as the center of action?
What words are used in the commercial sex transaction? 'I will pay you this amount for that kind of sexual experience.'
But who is 'I'? At any one time, the I is a collection of names, roles . . . relationships that are cybernetic.
Now, if the speaker is aware of this as is the hearer, and there is agreement, then there would be consensus on the consequences of what ensues.
As long as the 'I' is centered on conversation and there is consciousness of this fact, there is no way an actor will willingly terminate another actor's life. People in this case are, even before biological conception, even the buried are.
There is no pro-life, or pro-choice in this case; only life as intuition in a Bergsonian sense.
But when consciousness of the 'I' is seperated from the whole - the past, the future and the present, 'an individual' will act selfishly - 'individualistically.' But the 'individual' doesn't exist in fact!
To utter the word 'arbotion' is to submit to the powers of selfishness - read deception.