An interesting hypothetical
Patterico has posted an interesting hypothetical that goes to the heart of much of the abortion debate.
Assume the following facts. The fetus is viable. A doctor testifies that the safest method of abortion is to begin the delivery, and then abort the fetus. On cross-examination, he is asked whether delivery would be safer still for the mother — and he answers yes.
In other words, partial-birth abortion is the safest method of abortion — but delivery is safer still.
With those assumptions: in your view, may the state force the mother to deliver the baby?
If not . . . why not?
Read the comments, if you can stomach them, and discover that pro-choicers really aren't about choice -- after all, the issue is no longer the woman's control of her own body, but about the right to murder a child -- but instead they're pro-abortion.
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Read the comments yourself, indeed, and discover where the limits are to what you'll have the government do to you.
For the record: In the comment thread in question over at Patterico's place, htom is just fine with infanticide -- if that's what the mother wants.