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[โ€“] socsa@piefed.social 59 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (42 children)

Abortion is not a moral hazard at all. Most people who might exist don't. The whole "everyone agrees abortion is awful..." shit is obnoxious. I legitimately do not care. I am far more concerned about the lives of actual children. Once we seriously tackle that issue, we can move upstream, and this should be viewed as both incentive and a purity test for those who pretend to care about the "unborn."

[โ€“] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (36 children)

I am unsure about when it stops being moral to terminate a foetus/baby. I think it's somewhere between 6 and 14 months, but that's just my gut feeling. Some people are astonished that I would even consider that it could be after birth, but it's not like any sudden development occurs at the moment of birth.

[โ€“] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 months ago (10 children)

It is always moral if the woman doesn't want the baby. Sometimes you don't even find out you're pregnant until it's 7 weeks or so

[โ€“] Kacarott@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While I think this is mostly true, I think there are some potentially problematic "edge cases", for example do you think it would be moral for someone to abort all girls until they eventually have a boy?

[โ€“] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

I don't like that but I don't think they'd be nice to the girl if it was born either, so maybe it's for the best

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