Any discussion on this topic is inherently meaningless unless strict definitions of the terms "pro life", "pro choice", and "feminist" are provided. If such definitions are provided any discussion will only serve to consider the topic in the terms of those definitions and are then limited to only the terms of those definitions.
So this sounds less like a cop out consider two possible definitions of the word "abortion"
1) government regulated and professionally performed pregnancy termination performed within the first trimester of a human pregnancy regardless of health or viability of the fetus.
2) government regulated and professionally performed pregnancy termination performed any time before natural, non-induced labor.
3) illegal and socially taboo termination of a pregnancy performed with minimal safety measures and funded on a black-market pricing system.
If this word is defined in any of these three ways, any discussion about abortion that uses any one of these definitions will be complete nonsense in terms of any of the other definitions.
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Date: 2010-06-28 03:10 pm (UTC)So this sounds less like a cop out consider two possible definitions of the word "abortion"
1) government regulated and professionally performed pregnancy termination performed within the first trimester of a human pregnancy regardless of health or viability of the fetus.
2) government regulated and professionally performed pregnancy termination performed any time before natural, non-induced labor.
3) illegal and socially taboo termination of a pregnancy performed with minimal safety measures and funded on a black-market pricing system.
If this word is defined in any of these three ways, any discussion about abortion that uses any one of these definitions will be complete nonsense in terms of any of the other definitions.