RE: Abortion is morally wrong
July 1, 2014 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2014 at 4:58 pm by Dystopia.)
(July 1, 2014 at 4:37 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Blackout, you can decide in your head all day long what's ethical, but when it comes to the act of actually going out and getting an abortion, the pregnant woman is the only one who should have the right to decide. I stand by that.
In a society where we've somehow decided that abortion should be up for a vote, I also hold the unpopular view that men shouldn't be allowed to vote on it. Would you want women voting on the legality of circumcision? I think circumcision is genital mutilation and that it's a practice that should be stopped immediately, but I don't think I should get a vote in the matter.
Firstly I completely agree with you on the first part - I was talking about the ethics of the act itself and not when to abort, that's up to all women
I completely disagree with you on the second matter by several reasons.
1 - Only allowing woman to vote would violate the principle of equality and the principle of democracy/free vote (since everyone gets the right to vote)
2 - By allowing this we would have to apply it by analogy to other situations, only gays would vote for gay rights, minorities for minorities rights, workers for workers rights. This is wrong because both parts have a saying in the matter. By only allowing women to vote they'd vote what benefits them more (same goes for other categories), this doesn't mean it would benefit society as a whole more. Imagine this - Low paid workers vote for minimum wage, they chose an extremely high wage because it benefits more and since employers can't vote they can't say NO to i (and a NO would be the right call from an economical perspective)
3 - Most politicians are males, only allowing females to vote would not account for sufficient people to make a legal vote for abortion
4 - Everybody should have a saying of what happens to society, not only a special category of people. By doing this we are completely dismissing the other parts arguments. Imagine minorities voted for affirmative actions. They would probably choose a lot of benefits that would be unbearable.
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