I've recently seen some people complaining about the question of "blood guilt" that gets brought up with the fetuses in replicators, suggesting that Bujold has some kind of anti-abortion axe to grind.
I think I saw the same comment, and they seem to be applying modern-day politics to a totally different situation. If an unwanted pregnancy didn't impact on a woman's life, barring the minor (that is, everywhere except Barrayar) procedure to transfer the blastocyst, abortion would seem like an incredibly blunt solution to the problem.
(If it's the comment I'm thinking of -- in the "authors showing their ids" post? And frankly, I'd rather Lois went back to showing us her id in her writing, instead of smearing it all over the internet -- the commenters also seemed to take issue with the continuation of "non-viable" pregnancies. So in one fell swoop, the commenter wipes out Elena and Miles, and leaves us with a very short series.)
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Date: 2009-05-16 02:34 am (UTC)I think I saw the same comment, and they seem to be applying modern-day politics to a totally different situation. If an unwanted pregnancy didn't impact on a woman's life, barring the minor (that is, everywhere except Barrayar) procedure to transfer the blastocyst, abortion would seem like an incredibly blunt solution to the problem.
(If it's the comment I'm thinking of -- in the "authors showing their ids" post? And frankly, I'd rather Lois went back to showing us her id in her writing, instead of smearing it all over the internet -- the commenters also seemed to take issue with the continuation of "non-viable" pregnancies. So in one fell swoop, the commenter wipes out Elena and Miles, and leaves us with a very short series.)