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#199 — A Conversation with Caitlin Flanagan

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is Abortion the Most Ethical Remedy?

At the extreme, it seems to me that it's trivially easy to answer me, you're talking about a merely fertilized egg, you know, day one, tha not a human being. So using an i u d, or anything that is essentially performing an abortion at the earliest possible stage, you know, the morning after pill. This is not an interesting ethical question. And no one's a murderer for doing those things. If a person thinks that wll, then that person has religious ideas which make no sense. Especially don't make sense in light of the fact that, as you pointed out, althoughthough not in these words, god is the most prolific abortionist of...

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