{"id":62,"date":"2009-01-22T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-01-22T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:04:49","slug":"what-if-abortion-were-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/01\/22\/what-if-abortion-were-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"What if Abortion were Illegal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything wrong is illegal; nor should it be.\u00a0 Adultery may be wrong, and eating <em>foie gras<\/em> may be problematic &#8211; but it doesn&#8217;t follow that eating <em>foie gras<\/em> with your mistress ought to be against the law.<\/p>\n<p>So what about abortion?\u00a0 Granted that some people think it wrong, what do they think the legal position should be?\u00a0 According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iD97OVJ4PNw&amp;eurl=http:\/\/unreasonablefaith.com\/2009\/01\/21\/how-to-stump-anti-abortionists-with-one-question\/&amp;feature=player_embedded\">this (admittedly gloriously unscientific) snippet<\/a>, they don&#8217;t think about the legal aspect very much at all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;d embed the clip here, but I can&#8217;t get it to work.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll update later as appropriate&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the ever-scabrous <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/01\/this_must_be_a_very_hard_quest.php\">Pharyngula<\/a> for the pointer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything wrong is illegal; nor should it be.\u00a0 Adultery may be wrong, and eating foie gras may be problematic &#8211; but it doesn&#8217;t follow that eating foie gras with your mistress ought to be against the law. 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