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Joyce Arthur
Personal blog · joycearthur.compoliticshealth
Joyce Arthur's personal blog at joycearthur.com covers politics and health. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joyce Arthur's essay "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" to illustrate people who oppose abortion for others while accepting it for themselves. It is cited across many political threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writer, feminist, activist, skeptic
Most-linked posts?
- /abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-06-25
What Hacker News says?
Team Blue has fewer abortions than Team Red, thanks to contraception. Team Red just has their abortions as safe for rich people while poor people use coat hangers. Team Red is only opposed to abortions for other people. "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion": https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-...
Comment linking /abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
on “Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade”> Most people cannot afford to move. That calculus gets a little different for some folks if the move comes with subsidized universal healthcare and better social services. > Those who voted for this and don't believe in subsidized healthcare should stay where they are, as I presume they believe universal or subsidized healthcare is "socialism" they don't want. We agree, but "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion"…
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on “ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year”Or their daughter. Or when it's them . There's a reason this twenty-four-year-old article is a classic: https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-...
Comment linking /abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
on “Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy”Have you read "the only moral abortion is my abortion"? https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-...
Comment linking /abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
on “Is population density the reason Americans can't discuss politics?”Not in my experience. Nobody really agrees with the state here, and their restrictions are ignored by everyone (when it comes to their own body). The people who support these restrictions support them only when applied to the bodies of other people. https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-... My question was not what authorities the state claims - my question is about upon what moral or philosoph…
Comment linking /abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
on “California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics”>I don’t believe anybody actually thinks this way. Oh, there are far too many people that do. I mostly call them the "Hell for you, heaven for me" bunch, the doublethink/cognitive dissonance in so many is very very strong. https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-... “The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion” is a common example of this behavior.
Comment linking /abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
on “CRISPR takes a bold leap toward silencing Down syndrome's extra chromosome”There are parallels here to abortion, where a certain bloc of people believe "the only moral abortion is my abortion" [0], and now also "the only moral gender-affirming care is my gender-affirming care." There's a certain quixotic daydream appeal to the idea of vindictively giving them exactly what they demand. Merely quixotic, of course, because the harm on innocents would be unacceptable. Ex: "I'm sorry Mr. and Mr…
Comment linking /abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
on “Opinion: WaPo Editorial Board Misleadingly Attacks Care of Trans Youth”See also "The only moral abortion is my abortion" for the complete opposite. Where people fail to develop empathy even after it has affected them. https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-...
Comment linking /abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/
on “Now That He Has No Power, Mitt Romney Says "Tax the Rich"”>When the {Sacred Value} is participation in the marketplace of ideas, then guarding it against unwelcome elements is the same as destroying it. When your justification can be used, identically, word for word, by the same people who believe the opposite of your beliefs, then it's not a logical reason, but a justification. My "justification" is not usable identically, word for word, by the same people who believe the…
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on “Cognitive ability is a powerful predictor of political tolerance”
