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Argument: Under a "veil of ignorance", the unborn would adopt a pro-life social contract
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A unsourced bumper sticker - "Now that I'm born I'M Pro-Choice"
- This reflects the gist of this argument. If people were to decide before they were born what kind of social contract they would adopt, they wold certainly not adopt a pro-choice social contract. Only once they are born is it plausible that someone would willingly adopt a pro-choice position ("now that I'm born I'M pro-Choice"). But, the "veil of ignorance", a liberal philosophical supposition, does not allow for this. The social contract must fit with what we would adopt before being born. This would, obviously, have to be a pro-life social contract.
