Abortion and Women's Rights

[Rampant.A.I.]

Jason,

Have you considered the "violinist" argument? Here is a link: http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil1...homson.htm

If you think that you should compel a woman to allow her body to be used as an incubator for another person, then you are essentially seeing her as a means to an end and not an end in herself.

If you do not accept that as a matter of general principle one person can use another person's body without that person's consent, then show how pregnancy is different.

What a great great great article. Agree at some parts, disagree at others. But yet, a great article that made me think and do some research for Judith Jarvis Thomson.

We have to accept the fact that some "problems" are unsolvable.

Abortion is a very complex subject that does not allow an overall "solution". All we can do is think and explore both sides of the coin.
My main proposition was better education and more alternatives.
Noone however can force a mother to cary a baby in her WOMB (got it right this time) without being a fascist.

But I have every right to believe that couples who have unprotected sex because it feels better and get pregnant are morons. Big ones.
And I have every right to believe that abortions are not cool and should not substitute condoms.

You'd be hard pressed to find couples who have unprotected sex and use abortion as birth control as the anti-abortion crowd strawman dictates.

And anti-abortion rhetoric rings hollow. These are the same people trying to get the morning after pill banned, and spending time and effort to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, the only source of The Pill for many young or low income couples.

You say you want more alternatives, yet the "Pro Life" crowd are working night and day to keep responsible birth control away from the couples and age ranges who need it most.