RE: Abortion: 10 years as an atheist and I still don't get it
April 9, 2019 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2019 at 4:57 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:So please explain to me why abortion is morally acceptable or what I might be missing.
You said it yourself - a foetus doesn't have the status of personhood. Morality is only applicable to persons. I view abortion as no more morally wrong than burning off a wart, removing an appendix, or pulling a tooth.
Furthermore, I'm having more than a little trouble with your stricture that it is wrong to kill anything that is alive. Does this include disease vectors? Celery stalks? Suppose the police shoot and kill a man who is holding a classroom of children hostage. Is killing this man immoral if it prevents the deaths of 30 children? While I understand that appeal to consequence is a fallacy, it is a very subjective and variable one.
Boru
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