(June 18, 2014 at 10:32 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(June 18, 2014 at 10:22 pm)Jenny A Wrote: When the woman's life is in danger I agree a late term abortion is just fine. Heartbreaking, but just fine ethically. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf
Late term abortions just cus, aren't common. But then neither is murder. So what's wrong with requiring a reason for late term abortions?
This is where I am at personally - though in terms of politics, I vote pro-choice. I can neither become pregnant, not father any more children, and it is not my place to substitute my judgment for anyone else's.
I can still become pregnant (and I don't want to be now) but that is a fast waning possibility. I don't think that that has anything to do with the ethics of the situation. A paraplegic's opinion on murder or rape is not invalid because the the extreme unlikelihood of their being about to commit either crime.
Politics is harder. Late term abortion decisions may have to be made on a dime. Endangerment of the mother may be sudden and immediate. Like pre speech prohibition, I think pre-abortion prohibition abhorrent. If it's murder because there's no reason other than I don't want it, then that can be sorted out afterwords.
Yeah, my position is ultra nuanced. It makes very few people pro life or pro choice happy. But it is logically consistent. And the reason is respect for human life and the understanding that we owe children a fair start.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.