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[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 20:05, 26 September 2008 (EDT)
[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 20:05, 26 September 2008 (EDT)
:I'm going to answer your very long reply with a very short one, because I'm lazy. I read once from someone (a libertarian, though that's mostly irrelevant) that abortion should only be illegal after the point at which modern science can reliably sustain a baby outside of the womb. Currently that falls somewhere around 26 weeks (I think) so that's an appropriate cuttoff. ''For now'', at least. I think I would be satisfied with a law to such effect (with exceptions for the life of the mother and probably some others), because it gives you a (somewhat) measurable cuttoff point, without having to define what constitutes a human.
:Again, I really don't see a law as endorsement. In other words, I don't think, if you went from 0 abortion laws to one that said abortion is legal after X weeks, that you would see a substantial increase in the number of people having abortions. Yes, there might be people who change their mind based on the law, but these people are most likely to be on the fence anyway.
:One comment about the "one day before" analogy. For one, yes I'm against killing a baby one day before it would be born, but there *is* a fundamental difference between a baby that's within the womb and one that's without. You can't carry your "one day before" analogy back forever, so even there you have to draw a line somewhere. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 23:47, 26 September 2008 (EDT)
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