For better or worse, we can’t take the pro-lifer’s life-saving utilitarian argument seriously. But the pro-choicer’s utilitarian arguments are not too good. They’re just plain good. Disrupting people’s sex lives, disrupting people’s life plans, and forcing people to seek international or illegal abortions are all very bad things that would make many people’s lives much worse, and in some cases much shorter. And that’s why, in the end, I believe that deep pragmatists should be pro-choice. I make no appeal to “rights,” just to a realistic consideration of the consequences.
