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Just a comment on your obfuscating language: lethal injection is also a medical procedure.

Abortion is a complex issue that should be discussed honestly, not obfuscated.




Lethal injection is not a medical procedure. If it was a medical procedure it wouldn’t make the recipient’s condition deliberately worse than it was before the procedure. Just because a procedure involves injecting chemicals in someone’s body doesn’t mean it’s medical.

And abortion is not a complex issue. The only arguments against it are religious and there are religions which require it, so in a purportedly secular country the answer is very simple.


> If it was a medical procedure it wouldn’t make the recipient’s condition deliberately worse than it was before the procedure.

Would you consider donating a kidney to be a medical procedure?

> And abortion is not a complex issue.

I am super pro-choice, but this is a silly statement. Just go ask a bunch of pro-choice people at what point they believe abortion is wrong and you'll get a whole bunch of different answers.


By that definition abortion isn't a medical procedure either, because it makes one of "the recipient’s condition deliberately worse than it was before the procedure".

And there are human rights arguments against abortion that have nothing to do with religion. Most people agree that the unborn acquire the right to live at some point, and the argument is mostly about when exactly. (Even Roe set that point well before birth.)


The recipient of an abortion is the pregnant person who does not want to be pregnant.


There are two people involved. One is sometimes ignored, or dehumanized, but still there.


And nobody has the right to inhabit another persons body without their consent.


Unscientific nonsense!




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