The abortion debate is broken. Here's a better pro-choice argument.
Channel: CommandMaestro
Date: 2021-12-25

A deep dive into the abortion debate in America and why it tends to be unproductive, and an argument in favor of abortion being legally accessible that differs quite a bit from what's typically discussed in mainstream American politics.

***For a thorough explanation of this video's sources, plus detailed commentary going over additional points that were not included in the video, please visit:
https://go.commandmaestro.com/abortion_script


CORRECTIONS:
- At 1:46, I say the paper is "authored by the World Health Organization". It was not authored *by* the WHO, but by authors who are part of a program of the WHO. It was published by the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada (JOGC).

Let me know if you find anything else!

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Links mentioned in the video & additional reading (also see sources for more):
• Article about emotional difficulty of giving up children to adoption: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/why-more-women-dont-choose-adoption/589759/ (Olga Khazan, The Atlantic)
• Article about philosophical difficulty of comparing abortion to adoption: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24355980 (Lindsey Porter, Journal of Applied Philosophy)
• Another article on the same subject, consisting of readers' perspectives: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/18/opinion/letters/amy-coney-barrett-abortion-adoption.html (New York Times)
• Here's an Instagram post from Jameela Jamil that is almost the opposite argument to what I'm making, yet I actually still find it decently compelling: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCLuUjP6r0/ – I have thoughts about this, explained in {Note B} in the annotated script.

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A note about my use of "pro-choice" and "pro-life": Both of these terms are flawed. Pro-choice people are not necessarily against life; they just don't see abortion as ending a life. Pro-life people are not necessarily against choice; they just believe that abortion is murder and therefore does not deserve to be even considered as something that should be a "choice". I'm using the terms because they're the most universally used terms to describe the sides of the debate, but I acknowledge they are not perfect. Plus, there are also people who fall somewhere between the poles of the spectrum that encompasses views on abortion and therefore do not fit neatly into either category.

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:35 Safety
3:52 Societal effects
     4:19 Out-of-wedlock pregnancy
     5:53 STD transmission
     6:41 Teen pregnancy/births
          9:09 Sex education
     10:57 Crime rates
     11:45 Economy
13:31 Philosophy
     17:59 Doctors' freedom
     18:56 Taxpayers' freedom
20:42 Conclusion

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Sources:
Sometimes I put an abbreviated list of sources in the description, but unfortunately for this video, it makes the description exceed the character limit. See the annotated script linked at the top of the description for all the sources I used to research for this video (the citation numbers you see throughout the video correspond to the document).

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The thumbnail uses modified versions of the photos listed below, both of which are licensed under the CC BY 2.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ):
https://flic.kr/p/bwddKJ – Fibonacci Blue on Flickr
https://flic.kr/p/25nrYar – Lorie Shaull on Flickr
My sincere thanks to the respective authors for choosing to make their content available under CC licenses.

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