So, uh, fun(?) fact, the trolley problem was originally formulated in a paper about abortion: https://web.archive.org/web/20240712123155/https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ362/Hallam/Readings/FootDoubleEffect.pdf
Someone once asked me that question, and I had the fun opportunity to let them know that my mom did in fact get several abortions before me, which is what allowed her to get to a better place in her life before having me and my sister, giving us a better life than if she’d had a kid in her teens.
Plus, if that first pregnancy had come to term, she never would’ve had me and my sister, so ehy does the first pregnancy get more right to live than the potential second?
I wonder how many abortions a woman can get before the abortion clinic starts sending angry messages to the contraception clinic for doing a bad job.
That’s why most abortion clinics also do contraception, counseling, and other family planning: to cut down on back and forth paperwork.
That’s he ONLY reason why.
“…so I said it sounds like she’s just feeding fetuses to the abortion clinic and then Jesus started crying”
