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Those posts about how heart surgery is transhumanism and vaccines are transhumanism have me tempted to claim abortion is transhumanism.

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Unironically I kind of think birth control pills and condoms and abortion are transhumanism, above and beyond the definition that makes all medicine transhumanism.

For almost all of human history, "PIV between reproductive age people has a significant chance of causing pregnancy" was one of those "eternal verities" that profoundly shaped society and power relations and the human condition. From the perspective of, say, the Middle Ages, it probably was in approximately the same category of "eternal verity" as "people get old and die" and "basically all animals, including humans, feed on the death of other life." And then all of a sudden it turned out to be not so eternal after all.