Tuesday 20 May 2008

"MPs to vote on abortion limit cut"

In my 'Libertarianism & pragmatism' series, my reply to David Bergland's question "What should government policy be toward abortion?" was "Provided a woman can look a doctor straight in the eye and tell him that she really doesn't want the child, then she should be allowed to have an abortion, as easily and early as possible to minimise distress and to enable her to get on with her life."

There are two sides to this, as ever. If it is broadly agreed that 'late' terminations are A Bad Thing, then by all means, reduce the upper limit, but, as a quid pro quo make it much, much easier for women to have an early termination, the easier and earlier the better AFAIAC.

Update: Video of Mad Nad was here but it's disappeared again, ah well.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Link seems dead.

I think I agree on the philosophy. It shows how the dichotomy between pro-choice and pro-life is so false. That there are types of abortion and types of choices and some are worse than others.