Abortion is morally wrong

[pocaracas]

My motus ponens is as follows:
1. It is morally impermissible to kill an innocent human being

Is it?
Always?
Are you sure?
Ever heard of the trolley problem? And others like that...

Reality is a bitch. Never say always! (Never say never, too, but oh well! )

Under some circumstances, it is morally permissible to kill an innocent human being.

2. A fetus is an innocent human being

I've got no beef with that....
Others seem to have, though...
I guess there's the mix up of personhood with human being.
A human being is a person only after birth. That's when you get a name and ID number. That's when you are a legal independent entity.
Before birth, you're still a human being, but not a person.

3. Ergo, it is morally impermissible to kill a fetus.

Faulty premise 1., leads to faulty conclusion.

Premise 2., although I consider it correct, leads you to a barrage of legal details, if you are willing to ever pass this notion into a law, thus making it mandatory for pregnant women to keep their fetuses until their birth (and then take care of them or give them up for adoption, according to the laws already in place).


If I have failed to address your argument, please let me know... being ignored isn't a very nice feeling.... there should be a moral imperative where you're obliged to reply to everyone on an online forum, even if just to say "No."