# Should infanticide be legalised?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 1, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-infanticide-be-legalised/508545 "2009-09-01T21:39:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-infanticide-be-legalised/508545/73 "2009-09-02T21:05:58Z")

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> [@Angry Lurker](#):
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> False equivalence.

How so?

> [@](#):
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> Do you support conscription?

No, and I said so earlier in this thread. A few years ago I put it this way:

> [@Pro-choice and the draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pro-choice-and-the-draft/427269/3):
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> I think military conscription is undemocratic, and equivalent to attempted murder by governments.

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