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There was a piece in The Atlantic called “Three Children, Two Abortions” with this ethical-legal stand at the end of it:

To be alive and human is to be in favor of life, but to bring an unwanted child into this world—or to force any woman to do so against her will, her health, her future, her finances, or her well-being, because that is your moral stance, not hers or her doctor’s—is not pro-life. It is control wearing the mask of virtue. It is government regulation at its most invasive.

That's a mother of three writing, and I just wonder about these implications:

• Is that mother murderous? There are those who argue abortion is homicide.
• Why does the state wish to insert itself in the bodily functions of its populace?
• Being at stake bodily in the law seems additionally and unnecessarily burdensome to women.
• I certainly don't think access to medical care should be restricted or made onerous for those seeking it.