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Let's get that out of the foods way. 1) Predictably, many pro-life bloggers have been linking to this piece, some comparing the abortion of disabled fetuses to the Holocaust or genocide. It seems to me that this argument begs the question, when applied to the abortion foods debate. Deliberately killing thousands of foods people with Down Syndrome would be genocide, beyond any doubt. But calling the abortion of Down Syndrome fetuses "genocide" assumes that fetuses are people. Whether or not fetuses are people is one of the primary questions pro-choicers and pro-lifers disagree on; you can't just assume it's true and then accuse pro-choicers of genocide. Even pro-life responses that aren't extreme enough to compare pro-choicers to Nazis tend to make this same basic logical error of assuming what's at issue. 2) Also on the abortion question, even if we agree that abortion in order to prevent Down syndrome is wrong, and even if we agree that government intervention is called for (two very big ifs), that still doesn't lead to banning abortion.
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