This.

[katrina_splat]

So...the short statement made by Maymay (http://maybemaimed.com/about/) below mirrors my views on abortion at this time pretty well. It is one of those issues that I continue to interrogate closely to craft how I personally feel, but there are some aspects of it that are (or should be, in

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[anonymous]

I remember covering this in biomedical ethics. It's usually presented in the situation of 'the pianist'. Imagine your walking down the street and someone kidnaps you. You then wake up in bed hooked up to a machine exchanging bodily fluids with an old man surrounded by a throng of supporters. They explain that the worlds greatest pianist is dying and needs to be hooked up to another human being for nine months. If you stay he lives, and in nine months your unhooked and can leave, if you go now he dies. Are you ethically required to stay? Is it unacceptable to leave?

[maggishness]

Well, I think it's even more than that, it's not just you are hooked up to him and can leave at the end, there's also a very real possibility that staying could cause irreperable damage to you or even death *and* there is no guarantee that he'll live even if you stay.

Note: I am not sure I think life begins at any specific point at all, really, so I completely agree that it is not a salient point.