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toller wrote
yeah, this isn't a new position at all. /u/willow, I'd recommend doing more reading into the arguments on both sides. your "third option" is very similar to A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971, which is a series of thought experiments to show that the fetus's right to life does not trump the bodily autonomy rights of the mother.
willow OP wrote
i'm not sure if it's me or liberals who are supposed to have a shallow understanding, but i've heard a lot of liberals argue that "a foetus is not a person" or something along those lines, and a quick look at Wikipedia suggests that this is argument is used to advocate for abortion.
perhaps i'm reading the wrong liberals, but i haven't heard this argument from that direction before - for example i feel like most liberals would say that killing a newborn child is morally wrong (and indeed this is illegal in all liberal countries i'm aware of), so to defend abortion there has to be a distinction between a child and a foetus - otherwise how could they defend one but not the other?
but in any case my aim was less to have a go at liberals and more to explore an application of individualism, so perhaps i should have avoided mentioning them at all.
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