RE: Abortion is morally wrong
August 19, 2014 at 8:27 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2014 at 8:28 am by bennyboy.)
(August 17, 2014 at 1:31 pm)answer-is-42 Wrote: Prereq: A fetus is a subject (NOT DEBATING THIS ISSUES IN THIS ARGUEMENT)Being responsible in general and imagining a social contract with a bundle of cells are very different things. If I knock up a girl, I'm responsible to her; I either have to support her if she decides to keep the bundle of joy, or I have to drive her to the clinic and maybe foot the bill if she decides not to keep it. It would be immoral for me to walk away and make her deal with the consequences of our shared act alone.
1) Responsibility for the consequences of your voluntary actions is moral
2) Sex is a voluntary action and pregnancy is a consequence
3) Abortion is by definition a FAILURE to be responsible to the fetus (subject of action for that action
4) THERE FORE (a word I have used MULTIPLE TIMES) abortion is not moral.
Being responsible doesn't mean doing what you, answer-is-42, personally think someone should do. It means accepting that your actions have consequences, and attempting to minimize bad ones. To many, this means not allowing a child to be brought into the world with disadvantageous circumstances.
Also, please stop shouting FAILURE at people who disagree with you. What about your FAILURE to understand that people have moral reasons for refusing to demand that others do what you want them to do?