My aim is to increase the amount of happy future people. Reducing abortion is one way to do that, but Iāve been clear in a few comments that I would endorse other interventions over reducing abortions:
āoptimizing for increasing the amount of children that families want and are able to happily have is probably better than voluntary abortion reduction as a means of increasing the amount of near-term future peopleā (source)
āI think voluntary abortion reduction is just one of many ways to increase the amount of near-term future people. The postās āIn Our Personal Livesā section includes the suggestions you gave and more, which I agree are arguably more effective than voluntary abortion reduction in accomplishing that goal.ā (source)
You werenāt able to see this, but I also agree-voted the following comments by others:
āthe best solution here is incentivizing people to voluntarily have more childrenāe.g. child tax credits, maternity/āpaternity leave, etcā (source)
āIād be tentatively more comfortable with measures taken to facilitate increasing the number of wanted pregnancies, including legalizing paid surrogacy services and subsidizing childcare and adoption of older children.ā (source)
Everything I wrote about prioritizing other causes over voluntary abortion reduction goes double for involuntary abortion reduction, because of personal autonomy concerns. So yes, I endorse applying the same argument here in favor of prioritizing EA intervention without a negative externality regarding personal autonomy. I donāt think thereās an inconsistency here, because Iāve made it clear that I would prioritize āinterventions that empower women who want to have more children or reduce barriers that they face.ā
My aim is to increase the amount of happy future people. Reducing abortion is one way to do that, but Iāve been clear in a few comments that I would endorse other interventions over reducing abortions:
āoptimizing for increasing the amount of children that families want and are able to happily have is probably better than voluntary abortion reduction as a means of increasing the amount of near-term future peopleā (source)
āI think voluntary abortion reduction is just one of many ways to increase the amount of near-term future people. The postās āIn Our Personal Livesā section includes the suggestions you gave and more, which I agree are arguably more effective than voluntary abortion reduction in accomplishing that goal.ā (source)
You werenāt able to see this, but I also agree-voted the following comments by others:
āthe best solution here is incentivizing people to voluntarily have more childrenāe.g. child tax credits, maternity/āpaternity leave, etcā (source)
āIād be tentatively more comfortable with measures taken to facilitate increasing the number of wanted pregnancies, including legalizing paid surrogacy services and subsidizing childcare and adoption of older children.ā (source)
Everything I wrote about prioritizing other causes over voluntary abortion reduction goes double for involuntary abortion reduction, because of personal autonomy concerns. So yes, I endorse applying the same argument here in favor of prioritizing EA intervention without a negative externality regarding personal autonomy. I donāt think thereās an inconsistency here, because Iāve made it clear that I would prioritize āinterventions that empower women who want to have more children or reduce barriers that they face.ā