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If you want to hear an opinion that argues not from a moral standpoint but takes the view of someone who actually has to make such a decision, I can recommend l

• slumdev 6y ago
  I don't. I approach moral decisions from moral principles. Letting your emotions run you is a recipe for disaster and a mark of immaturity.
• hackeraccount 6y ago
  Buttigieg's argument supposes that the question is if the government dictates the outcome or the woman does. It's true that at the end of the day someone is going to decide if a pregnancy is carried to term or not but Buttigieg is sweeping so much under the rug in a rush to get to a question that he feels comfortable with. He's avoiding things like: Is abortion a good thing or not? Should the government (and by extension people who don't support it) be paying for it? Should the government treat it as neutral - there are a raft of instances where we let people make decisions but we absolutely let government push a desired outcome. Don't smoke. Get exercise. Have kids. Get married. Don't be a bigot. Be patriotic. The annoying thing to me is that virtually everyone agrees that there's a space short of government dictating that abortions don't happen and not caring at all if they happen. Whne B. Clinton said "Safe, Legal and Rare" the question that people should have asked is "Why rare?" and "How do you want to make it rare?"