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Abortion in Arkansas is legal to save the life of the mother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Arkansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Arkan
by like_any_other 5mo ago
Abortion in Arkansas is legal to save the life of the mother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Arkansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Arkansas
None of your other examples are comparable to the story. They're not deliberate deaths caused by adherence to some tradition. They wouldn't be prevented if people "just stopped doing it". They're accidents and violence, that we've taken reasonable steps to prevent (traffic laws, car safety standards, the criminal justice system, worker safety laws,...), but haven't been 100% successful.
- mjd 5mo ago“She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.” That's from this morning, reported in ProPublica. https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-care https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-abortion-ban-mis...
- like_any_other 5mo agoThen the example is valid.
- mjd 5mo agoThe comment I was responding to asked for examples of “lotteries you don't see, because you're used to them, and they're just part of how the world works, like this one is to the people in the story”. The comment wasn't asking for “deliberate deaths caused by adherence to some tradition”.
- like_any_other 5mo agoExpanding the idea of "lottery" that much makes it meaningless, and useless as social commentary. Sometimes people die of cancer, or lightning, or shark attacks, and eventually of old age. What insight is there in calling them "lotteries you don't see"?
- gord288 5mo agoNone of your three examples are actions that are willingly (either actively or passively) carried out collectively by people in society.
- gord288 5mo agoSupposed “exceptions” for the life of the mother are largely ineffective in practice. By design. https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/23/all-abortion-bans-include-exceptions-for-a-mothers/ https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/23/all-abortion-...