Bodhisattva

Are you Pro-Choice or Anti-Choice?

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Scucca

I'm pro-choice, but how is that question relevant to the thread? We're not talking about 'pro-choice versus morality coercion". Once abortion is allowed, we're talking about the appropriate restrictions to that pro-choice position.

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Bodhisattva

It is relevant because we are talking about Abortion... surely that makes sense? Why do there have to be restrictions again?

Scucca

Its about the debate within the literature over the optimal abortion policy. On one side we have evidence that restrictions may have some positive spillover effects (e.g. parental controls reducing the probability of youngster promiscuity increasing sexually transmitted diseases). Despite a pro-choice general policy, restrictions may then be deemed to be desirable. On the other, we have an explanatory variable for child maltreatment. This demonstrates the consequences of forcing more unwanted pregnancies.