Posted: Apr 25, 2014 1:12 am
Tacticus wrote:If abortions were proven to cause mental illness and suicide in a large number of patients, the state would be justified in regulating and even banning abortion entirely on the basis that a procedure that identifiably causes such ongoing illness poses a public health and welfare risk, not to mention an economic burden in caring for indigent patients who might require substantial and expensive mental health treatment to deal with the effects of an abortion.
Whereas if every abortion magically caused a child somewhere to get a million dollars and a pony, the state would be justified in promoting them aggressively. So exactly what the fuck does that have to do with anything?