RE: Abortion: 10 years as an atheist and I still don't get it
April 9, 2019 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2019 at 5:21 pm by Mermaid.)
(April 9, 2019 at 4:36 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote: Yet the pro-choice crowd does not seem to stop at legality. Most of them, as far as I understand, think that abortion is morally justifiable. But my understanding is that inasmuch as a man is morally obligated to stand his ground and fight to the death to protect his family (despite having the legal right to flee and save his own life), a woman is morally obligated to protect her child while it is growing inside her. So please explain to me why abortion is morally acceptable or what I might be missing.
1) Morality is subjective.
2) A fetus cannot survive without my body. My body is my body, and nobody else's, even the fetus'. It's private. I don't have to explain why I find it moral or immoral because it's nobody else's beeswax. I don't think it's moral or immoral for someone else to have an abortion simply because it's not my body and none of my business. I don't get an opinion about that any more than I get an opinion on what my neighbor has for lunch.
3) How is a man morally obligated to protect his family more than a woman is?
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