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Yes, very similar to how in the decades after abortion was legalized nationally in the US, it gradually northern to our current state where it is legal to kill

Yes, very similar to how in the decades after abortion was legalized nationally in the US, it gradually northern to our current state where it is legal to kill your own children any time before they turn 18. Oh wait, no, that didn't happen, because in both your and my case it turns out humans are able to distinguish between life that is and life that might be. The "step" you mentioned is only a small one in a philosophical sense, enormous otherwise to the point of not being a concern.

hypertele-Xii 1y ago
It's happening in Canada right now. They are pressuring inconvenient individuals to take their lives.
lurk2 1y ago
> it gradually northern to our current state where it is legal to kill your own children any time before they turn 18. They’re trying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHzaWyB21A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHzaWyB21A
- margalabargala 1y ago
  That video is about abortion. Before birth. So no, they're not trying.
  - lurk2 1y ago
    In the video they are discussing the prospect of aborting the pregnancy as the child is being born.
    - margalabargala 1y ago
      This is a great example because it strengthens the original one I was making; that despite pearl-clutching about what something "could allow", the actual bad thing that they're concerned about never happens. It's just a distraction tactic. Plenty of states, like Alaska and Oregon, already allow abortion right up to the moment of birth. They don't happen, ever, zero times, except in cases where somebody is going to die otherwise. The handwringing over "omg they're killing children" actually just kills both children and mothers by making lifesaving procedures illegal. People don't carry unwanted babies to term unless forced to do so. Thus making it illegal to abort a full-term baby does nothing but score political points, at the expense of the deaths of some mothers who desperately wanted a child and then had some complications.

hypertele-Xii 1y ago

It's happening in Canada right now. They are pressuring inconvenient individuals to take their lives.

lurk2 1y ago

> it gradually northern to our current state where it is legal to kill your own children any time before they turn 18. They’re trying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHzaWyB21A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcHzaWyB21A

margalabargala 1y ago
That video is about abortion. Before birth. So no, they're not trying.
- lurk2 1y ago
  In the video they are discussing the prospect of aborting the pregnancy as the child is being born.
  - margalabargala 1y ago
    This is a great example because it strengthens the original one I was making; that despite pearl-clutching about what something "could allow", the actual bad thing that they're concerned about never happens. It's just a distraction tactic. Plenty of states, like Alaska and Oregon, already allow abortion right up to the moment of birth. They don't happen, ever, zero times, except in cases where somebody is going to die otherwise. The handwringing over "omg they're killing children" actually just kills both children and mothers by making lifesaving procedures illegal. People don't carry unwanted babies to term unless forced to do so. Thus making it illegal to abort a full-term baby does nothing but score political points, at the expense of the deaths of some mothers who desperately wanted a child and then had some complications.