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"We're in a real mess here, trying to fit a profound and intimate matter into a system more suited to tax codes and property issues, like trying to solve the mysteries of literature using formulas in math class."
I like that quote.
I have what I think are ideas along these lines, but I know I can't express them coherently. That--plus the fact that it never fails, anytime someone mentions the "abortion issue", they are bound to offend someone else.
I'm trying to think of an analogy. Here's a situation completely unrelated to someone having an abortion: say Person A does very grievous physical harm to Person B. We know Person A must compensate Person B... but suppose Person B has to, say, have his/her legs amputated because of what Person A did? How can Person A really do anything to get Person B his/her legs back?
There is really nothing A can do to completely compensate B. So we make A give a great big sum of money to B. But that still never gives B his/her legs back.
IOW, we take a horrible situation and put a legal/monetary framework on it. But the horrible situation was something that the legal/monetary system really is inadequate to address.
And, to return to the issue of abortion, I think it is an issue that politics and legalism are inadequate to address.
Okay, that's all. Now people can get on with being offended with me.
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