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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Jim, the chastity belt theory, and me, Part 2
- Message-ID: <32731@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:16:31 GMT
- References: <32728@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- More from <1992Nov15.190305.26198@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb):
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- >Figures have been quoted in t.a. (by pro-choicers I believe) showing
- >that most women have at least one unintended pregnancy in the course
- >of their lives. I don't believe it's true that most parents find that
- >their children need an organ donation for which the parents would be
- >the only available donors. So the former situation seems the more
- >forseeable and the more universal, and it seems more reasonable to
- >expect people to take it into account in thinking about their lives.
-
- This line of reasoning can take you nowhere. Any attempt to draw a
- strong link between probabilities of events and the way we perceive
- and plan policy for them, including assigning responsibility, is
- doomed: See Kahneman, Slovic, and Tversky's excellent summary of the
- evidence in all kinds of areas in their 1984 book Judgment and Choice.
-
- Besides I agree we need to hold people responsible for pregnancy,
- including the responsible choice to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
-