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Comment author: private_messaging 06 January 2014 01:15:29AM 5 points [-]

I happen to live in a small eastern European country...

Examples of big local policy debates: should a predominantly Polish community be allowed to keep street signs on the buildings that are in both Polish and Lithuanian, or should those be replaced, at a considerable expense? Another policy debate: should Polish people be allowed to use the letter W in their names in the passport?

How do you think opinions about the above questions correlate with the views on abortion?

Now, it seems to me that in the policy debates concerning something like abortion, ethics is only a part of the motivation, in only a fraction of people who are against abortions.