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Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte... by AlexandrB on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:02PM (#20965908)
However forcing someone to carry a baby to term is also morally problematic. Even non-life-threatening births carry risks of bodily harm.
Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte... by spamizbad on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:13PM (#20966021)
Not to mention the psychological trauma of carrying a child that can be "safely" birthed but will immediately begin a slow, painful death after leaving the womb. This is the typical case for most so-called "late term abortions" that everyone clutches their pearls over.

Anyway, I find people's thinking around the morals of abortion to be quite fluid . The termination rate of pregnancies with chromosomal abnormalities far exceeds the percentage of people who identify as "pro choice" and cannot be explained simply by pro-choice people being more prone to fetuses with such conditions.

Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte... by dvt on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:12PM (#20966014)
> However forcing someone to carry a baby to term is also morally problematic

There are plenty of pro-choice arguments, but this is not a very good one.

Coercion is often justifiably used when lives are at stake. For example, the government might "force" sick people in a quarantine given an epidemic outbreak. What you want to show is that the fetus is not a person and, therefore, doesn't have the same rights as the mother. This is difficult, but not impossible -- although there are some concessions that need to be made along the way.