The sequitur you're missing is that Kate, rather than taking up an adversarial position to yours, is sticking to the central topic: both people who oppose abortion on principle, and people who oppose rigid enforcement of black-and-white morality in a very grey area on principle, want to fix this problem.
It's bringing abortion into a discussion of how to minimize the distinctly different problem of actual infant mortality which is the dodgy link.
(Oh, and one sensible dividing line between the two is that until a baby is born, it is not yet a living being on its own. The fetus may manage to make that transition to independent life, or it may not -- the miscarriage rate is even higher than even the worst infant mortality rate. But until you've got a bellybutton, you're still part of another being; that's a distinctly different state. You individually may place more weight on other factors, but you can't really deny that's a biggie.)
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Date: 2008-08-25 04:34 am (UTC)It's bringing abortion into a discussion of how to minimize the distinctly different problem of actual infant mortality which is the dodgy link.
(Oh, and one sensible dividing line between the two is that until a baby is born, it is not yet a living being on its own. The fetus may manage to make that transition to independent life, or it may not -- the miscarriage rate is even higher than even the worst infant mortality rate. But until you've got a bellybutton, you're still part of another being; that's a distinctly different state. You individually may place more weight on other factors, but you can't really deny that's a biggie.)