FP: “Does it not…

FP: “Does it not allow women to evade responsibility as well? Or is the pill a natural function now?”

A heart attack is a “natural function”. A defribillator is an artificial intervention that prevents cardiac arrest from taking its normal course, i.e., death. It doesn’t follow from this that you are evading your responsibility to die.

Broadly speaking, “natural” is not a term with any intrinsic normative content whatsoever. Certainly not for human beings, anyway: invention is a part—perhaps the most distinctive part—of our nature.

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