Reply #38: "responsible choice-making"

[iverglas]

"The key to responsible choice-making here is to look at
ultrasound pictures of the Z/E/F to potentially be discontinued
around the time it is to be discontinued."

To whom is this choice to be "responsible"? For what is this choice to be "responsible"? To whom and for what is the person making it allegedly responsible?

Mr. Roe seems to be able to make the allegation -- that a woman making a decision in respect of her pregnancy is responsible for something, to someone -- but to be unable or unwilling to tell us what that means. Maybe someone else can help him out?

It always reminds me of when I was in Cuba 25 years ago ... there was a publicity campaign underway that consisted of posters and billboards bearing the exhortation "¡EMULACION!" Um, I asked my Cuban English-teacher friend: Emulate whom? what? Well, he said, just "emulate". But no, I said, you can't just "emulate"; you have to emulate someone or something!

That was probably just me and my imperfect Spanish (although the memory let me get the joke when I watched Death of a Bureaucrat years later, and attracted turned heads when I burst out in guffaws at the shot of a drunk holding a bottle of rum sitting on the sidewalk under an EMULACION poster). Here, I'm confident of my grasp of English.

One is responsible for something, and/or to someone. One cannot be "responsible" without there being an object, direct or indirect, of one's responsibility. And I really wanna know to whom, and for what, a pregnant woman is responsible.

"As things get closer to birth people's individual judgments
of their own individual responsibilities begin to diverge a bit more.
Edit: for clarity"

Uh, yeah. Edit doesn't seem to have worked. All ya gotta do now is this:

As things get closer to birth people's individual judgments of their own individual responsibilities
for . . . . . . ./to . . . . . . . begin to diverge a bit more.

... and then tell us what the point of that statement is, of course.

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Edit: for clarity
oops, edited just once, to remove stray quoted bit, for clarity ;)