RE: What moral justification besides bodily autonomy do you use to support the position t
July 5, 2017 at 10:02 am
A human fetus has the potential to become a human person. That gives it more value in my opinion than a rabbit fetus. I'm uncomfortable with late third-trimester abortions that aren't medically advised or due to not having access to abortion services sooner; but such cases seem to be very rare. My discomfort is not an argument for a woman not to be allowed to choose to have such an abortion.
Birth being the line may be somewhat arbitrary, in that the same fetus could have been born a day earlier and been fine, but any line is going to be somewhat arbitrary for the same reason...if the cut-off is 60 days into the pregnancy, the 59 day-old fetus isn't particularly different from a 60-day old one.
The main issue I have is the use of force necessarily invoked when you make something illegal. However close the fetus may be to being viable, it doesn't have a right to be born that exceeds the pregnant woman's right not to be forced to birth it.
Birth being the line may be somewhat arbitrary, in that the same fetus could have been born a day earlier and been fine, but any line is going to be somewhat arbitrary for the same reason...if the cut-off is 60 days into the pregnancy, the 59 day-old fetus isn't particularly different from a 60-day old one.
The main issue I have is the use of force necessarily invoked when you make something illegal. However close the fetus may be to being viable, it doesn't have a right to be born that exceeds the pregnant woman's right not to be forced to birth it.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
