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Originally Posted by Annie
True, if 5k per year is not often. Of those, most are healthy babies of healthy mothers. So why abort? Pending divorce, change of heart, all of which put the mother at 'mental risk.' Sorry, put the baby up for adoption.
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You've assumed your own conclusions there. The issue is - correct me if I have this wrong - about choice. The way I see it the state has no right to tell a woman she must give birth to a baby. I've argued in these forums for less intrusion by the state into the life of an individual. Now that's often characterised as a libertarian point of view. Maybe, but I'm a social libertarian not an economic libertarian (along the lines of Hayek for example). I believe the state has no right to tell a woman, "you will give birth." There's more to be said on that but I'll stop here and see where the discussion goes.