Trump dossier

[Drew Phipps]

I disagree somewhat. There is more at stake than merely a medical decision of the mother. There is an unborn person who has not yet developed the ability to advocate for his or her own existence. It is presumed by advocacy groups that the unborn wish to have a chance to exist, which is not entirely unreasonable. The unborn need to have a place at the table too, with the doctor and the mother (and presumably the father). However, I cannot say that the State is best suited to perform that advocacy.


What I find most hypocritical is that it is (many times) the same people fighting for the rights of the unborn; as fight for the death penalty, as fight against climate change, as fight for the ability of commercial ventures to externalize their costs of doing business by polluting, as fight for externalizing the costs of governing onto future generations via huge budget deficits. So it would seem that such people favor lots of babies that will have miserable lives.