Abortion not allowed

[Jenny A]

I like your new avatar. Irrelevant but true.

For a fetus the use of mom's body is as necessary as anything can possibly be. The question is whether it's moral to require mom to provide that necessity. I say once mom has allowed the fetus to become developmentally a human, it is. Similarly if she delivers the fetus and takes the baby home, she is morally required to care for it.

Late term abortions are a little different. But abortions aren't the termination of a foetus, it's the termination of a pregnancy, most of the time resulting in the death of the foetus. But if it can be kept alive via an incubator, I think it should. The mother doesn't neccessarily get to decide if the foetus should live or die when there is a chance they can save it.

I'm only interested in the late term pregnancy. Abort all the little groups of cells with beating hearts you like. It's only as the fetus develops that any moral question arises. I would certainly allow an early Cesarian transfer of a viable fetus to an incubator as an alternative to natural delivery.

We would like society to take care of those in the hospital, but we don't assign that duty to anyone in particular and indeed it need not be done by anyone in particular.

To the extent that we assign anything to anyone we do assign people to treat the sick, doctors, nurses and surgeons are requried by law to do this. We asign fire fighters to put out fires and police officers to uphold the law.
And what do you mean it need not be done? Medicine is vital to human survival and is the reason we are so successful.

No we don't assign particular people. We do recognize that particular professions are better at it and some countries require hospitals to admit everyone or people in particular conditions. But if a surgeon decides to quit no one will drag him to the hospital because the patient requires a physician.

We do require parents to cough up the money to look after their own kids whether they want to or not.