Comments on: Pro-choice VS Abortion Reduction http://www.ta-nehisi.com/2008/07/pro-choice-vs-abortion-reduction.html Politics, Economics, Culture, Cars Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:28:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Donald http://www.ta-nehisi.com/2008/07/pro-choice-vs-abortion-reduction.html/comment-page-1#comment-1614 Donald Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:35:42 +0000 http://www.ta-nehisi.com/?p=609#comment-1614 There appears to be a causality violation here, with Bridget Brown's response coming two months before the post that inspired it. I'd go into why it is legitimate for people to imagine themselves in positions they can't possibly occupy and make judgments about how they think they'd respond, so long as they allow others the freedom to make their own choices, but I'm a little confused about when my response is likely to appear and anyway, it would probably just start a pointless argument. There appears to be a causality violation here, with Bridget Brown’s response coming two months before the post that inspired it.

I’d go into why it is legitimate for people to imagine themselves in positions they can’t possibly occupy and make judgments about how they think they’d respond, so long as they allow others the freedom to make their own choices, but I’m a little confused about when my response is likely to appear and anyway, it would probably just start a pointless argument.

]]> By: Bridget Brown http://www.ta-nehisi.com/2008/07/pro-choice-vs-abortion-reduction.html/comment-page-1#comment-728 Bridget Brown Mon, 18 May 2009 17:13:35 +0000 http://www.ta-nehisi.com/?p=609#comment-728 I'm having a peculiar response to this commentary on abortion. While, in the end, you end up saying all the "right" things that place you in the pro-choice camp, you begin this article with a couple of whopping hypotheticals with rather firmly stated opinions. "If" you were a woman, and "if" you found yourself pregnant. you just "know" that you'd want to carry that fetus to term. How in the world could you possibly know that, being neither female or ever having even the most remote possibility of having to contemplate the reality of a pregnancy in your body? It's difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to come up with a situation at all comparable,for purposes of comparison, as far as men and their bodies are concerned, and ain't nobody ever legislated what men had to do with their bodies. Even involuntary castration, as awful as that is, holds an entirely different set of life-altering consequences for it's victim. So why "go on record" to say "abortion is icky", but if you were a pregnant woman you wouldn't choose abortion? What's that supposed to mean, exactly, especially in light of your subsequent comments? I’m having a peculiar response to this commentary on abortion. While, in the end, you end up saying all the “right” things that place you in the pro-choice camp, you begin this article with a couple of whopping hypotheticals with rather firmly stated opinions. “If” you were a woman, and “if” you found yourself pregnant. you just “know” that you’d want to carry that fetus to term. How in the world could you possibly know that, being neither female or ever having even the most remote possibility of having to contemplate the reality of a pregnancy in your body? It’s difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to come up with a situation at all comparable,for purposes of comparison, as far as men and their bodies are concerned, and ain’t nobody ever legislated what men had to do with their bodies. Even involuntary castration, as awful as that is, holds an entirely different set of life-altering consequences for it’s victim. So why “go on record” to say “abortion is icky”, but if you were a pregnant woman you wouldn’t choose abortion? What’s that supposed to mean, exactly, especially in light of your subsequent comments?

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