I get where you’re going, I think. On my part, there was nothing meant about sterilization, which is a completely personal decision. I simply made the point that such a personal decision should not have anything to do with whether the nation’s fertility rate is rising or falling. It is the individual’s decision, end of story. If we are a…
I get where you’re going, I think. On my part, there was nothing meant about sterilization, which is a completely personal decision. I simply made the point that such a personal decision should not have anything to do with whether the nation’s fertility rate is rising or falling. It is the individual’s decision, end of story. If we are a nation of free individuals (as conservatives so often remind us), that freedom is threatened by every law that tells us what we can and cannot do, whether those laws have to do with, for example, limiting the amount of carbon a corporation (given individual status by the court) allowed in the air or whether or not an individual may or may not obtain an abortion or contraceptives or how many and what types of guns we may possess. But our individual freedom is ultimately limited by the fact that we cannot do anything that infringes in someone else’s freedom. When it comes to abortion, the crux of the problem lies with one question: what constitutes a person, an individual? Until we can answer that question, we cannot resolve the great abortion debates.
I get where you’re going, I think. On my part, there was nothing meant about sterilization, which is a completely personal decision. I simply made the point that such a personal decision should not have anything to do with whether the nation’s fertility rate is rising or falling. It is the individual’s decision, end of story. If we are a nation of free individuals (as conservatives so often remind us), that freedom is threatened by every law that tells us what we can and cannot do, whether those laws have to do with, for example, limiting the amount of carbon a corporation (given individual status by the court) allowed in the air or whether or not an individual may or may not obtain an abortion or contraceptives or how many and what types of guns we may possess. But our individual freedom is ultimately limited by the fact that we cannot do anything that infringes in someone else’s freedom. When it comes to abortion, the crux of the problem lies with one question: what constitutes a person, an individual? Until we can answer that question, we cannot resolve the great abortion debates.