Re: [Pen-l] McCain's veep candidate has Down Syndrome son

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 29, 2008, at 9:01 PM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
> There is such a commitment amongst progressives to abortion that the  
> serious social problems supposedly solved by abortion are ignored.


The abortion debate is playing out in the opposite sense (of women's  
rights) in parts (and segments) of India, where some women are  
refusing to abort their female foetuses, incurring the wrath of their  
spouses and parents, and risking destitution and violence.

But w.r.t your point above, I believe the argument for abortion (or  
choice) is not based on positing it as a solution to social problems,  
but as a fundamental right of a woman to her body. Or am I missing  
something?

Marta has brought up arguments similar to yours on LBO. The problem  
with it, as I see it, is that in order to see it as a disability  
rights issue, I have to first see it as a foetus rights issue, and I  
believe a foetus does not have any rights. That said, I do agree that  
selective abortion on the basis of any feature (as noted in the first  
paragraph) does raise important questions for leftists.

	--ravi


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