{"id":62,"date":"2009-01-22T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-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:\/\/stg-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. So what about abortion?\u00a0 Granted that some people think it wrong, what do they think the legal [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/01\/22\/what-if-abortion-were-illegal\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}