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[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

You can't keep such secrets at scale at all. Abortions can be performed by giving someone a couple of pills whilst not being visibly pregnant and thereby avoiding life changing, ruining, or sometimes ending consequences of pregnancy.

It is damn near impossible to keep people from getting abortions because we give women so many reasons to have them. Compared to that almost all circumcisions would stop because it would be impossible to hide any substantial portion of the pop getting or giving them.

You are arguing we shouldn't enact a policy that would end 99.9% because somewhere someone would be doing 0.1%

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