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This is just an oportunistic political move ahead of next year's elections. The government doesn't really care about abortion. Source: Argentinian living in Arg
by vivab0rg 6y ago
This is just an oportunistic political move ahead of next year's elections. The government doesn't really care about abortion. Source: Argentinian living in Argentina.
- _Microft 6y agoIf the outcome is net-positive, does it matter because of which reasons it was achieved?
- kwanbix 6y agoWell, it depends how do you measure positivizes. The babies that are going to be aborted, for sure don't see it as positive.
- _Microft 6y ago"Net positive" means here that despite negative effects, the end result is still preferable to other outcomes. (While not quite applicable here,) the easiest example to explain this is when the pregnancy threatens the lives of both mother-to-be and unborn child. An abortion will end the life of the child but the mother gets to live. In the other case both mother and child would die. So an abortion would be "net positive" because only the child dies and not both of them.
- kwanbix 6y agoBut that was already legal in Argentina. Here what they voted is abortion because I want it and that´s it.
- _Microft 6y agoThe example was meant to make clear what "net positive" means. Do you actually believe that women get abortions because "they want them"? That there are no real reasons? Not because untimely offspring might throw them and their family into poverty again? Not because the partner might be unsuitable for raising children and they would be left on their own with them in short order?
- slumdev 6y agoThis is strawmanning. No one who advocates for life believes that there aren't any mitigating circumstances. People who advocate for life believe that there aren't any mitigating circumstances that justify murder.