Abortion: 10 years as an atheist and I still don't get it

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So, you are okay not forcing a woman to be a life support system for her 1 year old child, but you are okay with forcing a woman to be a life support system for her fetus.

Why the different standards?

One case is asking the mother to sacrifice one of her kidneys for the rest of her life
The other merely asks her to carry a child for 9 months
A tiny risk in pregnancy doesn't make it comparable to loosing a kidney

She is not 'killing her child', she is ending a pregnancy.

The fetus has every right to continue living, but not at the expense of the bodily autonomy of the mother.

I meant to ask if it was ok for a mother to kill her 1 year old child?
If not then why is it ok to kill her unborn child? To deliberately harm it, to disturb its well being, to inflict pain upon it, to end it's life?
Why should the unborn child suffer the consequences for the mothers irresponsible actions?

I don’t think your ‘argument from pain’ is either strong or sound, because inflicting pain may - in a given situation - be the preferred moral choice

So the argument that inflicting pain is immoral isn't a strong one you say
So bashing some one is ok. Stabbing someone isn't immoral. Shooting someone is fine
Can u see the error in this line of thought...

If your going to reject the claim that inflicting pain is immoral then what is an immoral act? Define it.

A man is beating a six year old with a stick. Is bashing him immoral?

Another man is raping a woman. Is stabbing him immoral?

A third man is hold a bus load of people hostage. Is shooting him immoral?

You can look up a definition of morality for yourself. It’s a little more complicated than inflicting pain.

But I’m more interested in an answer to my question. If a foetus is anesthetized so that it feels no pain during the abortion, does that abortion become moral?

Boru