Abortion is murder. If you want to contest that, go here: http://fpb.livejournal.com/69029.html, read the arguments made there (including the discussion thread) and answer them. Do not skip bits. If you take it upon yourself to argue with me, I do not argue your right to do so, but I demand that my whole view be taken into account. Especially the point that humanity is not a timeless image, but a process in time, and that its time dimension must be taken into consideration when deciding what is human.
The evidence that you did not read with great care, as you yourself admit, is that you do not seem to have noticed that I gave credit to most European governments for doing their best to convince or force employers not to force mothers and pregnant women out of employment. I just said that such laws cannot do much to change a common mood among employers - and if you were an employer, would you employ someone who has one or two full years of her life spoken for in advance, or someone who can give his/her time for you without intruding obligations? And the evidence that the French government is not satisfied (and never has been) with the French birthrate is in the continuous sequence of new proposals to raise it, which has been a constant of French life since the mid-nineteenth century. And no wonder, since if France were as populous as her neighbours, Italy, Germany, or Britain, she would have 150 million inhabitants and probably be a greater economic power than Japan. Having said that, I have no desire to see any great growth of population in Europe myself, as I said above in my response to curia_regis. Replacement rate seems to me quite a sane goal for western Europe. But if one thing is at all clear, it is that the French government does not agree with me and never has.
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Re: natality rate
Date: 2008-06-23 05:05 pm (UTC)The evidence that you did not read with great care, as you yourself admit, is that you do not seem to have noticed that I gave credit to most European governments for doing their best to convince or force employers not to force mothers and pregnant women out of employment. I just said that such laws cannot do much to change a common mood among employers - and if you were an employer, would you employ someone who has one or two full years of her life spoken for in advance, or someone who can give his/her time for you without intruding obligations? And the evidence that the French government is not satisfied (and never has been) with the French birthrate is in the continuous sequence of new proposals to raise it, which has been a constant of French life since the mid-nineteenth century. And no wonder, since if France were as populous as her neighbours, Italy, Germany, or Britain, she would have 150 million inhabitants and probably be a greater economic power than Japan. Having said that, I have no desire to see any great growth of population in Europe myself, as I said above in my response to