here<\/a>. My reply follows:<\/p>\nThanks for the reply. Two quick points about the legal penalties for abortion: 1) There\u2019s a distinction between things that are immoral and things that should be made illegal (obviously). Some embryo-killing may be more amenable to criminalization than others. That shouldn\u2019t change whether we believe that embryos shouldn\u2019t be killed, whether embryos are individual human lives worthy of protection, etc. <\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t point out, though I should have, that one major reason pre-legalization abortion laws focused on the abortionist was so that women would go to the emergency room if something went wrong. They\u2019d be less likely to do that if they\u2019d face jail time, thus they would be more likely to die and the abortionists would be less likely to get caught. As for \u201ckeeping [women who abort] out of maximum security,\u201d I doubt that\u2019s where we would put, for example, a teen who left her baby in a trashcan. I may be wrong, but I\u2019ve read reports on several of these cases. (You\u2019re totally right that the \u201cdoesn\u2019t look like a baby\u201d thing shouldn\u2019t be relevant, and I retract that claim.) So there\u2019s all kinds of needs to balance when we\u2019re talking about who would receive what penalty for an illegal abortion.<\/p>\n
2) But I still don\u2019t think any <\/i>of that discussion is relevant to cloning, for the reasons I gave.<\/p>\n
[And yeah, I apologized for getting his sex wrong.]<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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