tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904546309822681143.post5111851100545529226..comments2024-01-02T07:16:42.491-05:00Comments on Thinking Critically About Abortion: Abortion and "Slaying the Dragons"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904546309822681143.post-17113561965018637672023-11-10T06:57:08.995-05:002023-11-10T06:57:08.995-05:00Hi, "murder" means "wrongful killin...Hi, "murder" means "wrongful killing (of a person)" and so what's said here is what's called "question begging" or assuming what you are would need to support. Please see the section in the book on question-begging arguments. <br /><br />Calling an embryo or beginning fetus a "child" is also question begging: see the section on definitions of abortion. Nathan Nobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12152631338134046080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5904546309822681143.post-76247715614252608342023-11-09T20:00:02.611-05:002023-11-09T20:00:02.611-05:00
This isn’t really how the arguments go, however....<br /><br />This isn’t really how the arguments go, however. This is a bit too charitable on the pro-choice side and the key point missing in the anti-abortion side is that those who condemn abortion assume the foetus is an innocent human life and deliberately destroying an innocent human life is murder. It is the murder that is wrong, not the abortion per se. There are multitudes of exceptions where abortion is entirely morally plausible (e.g. ectopic pregnancy) as no murder is taking place when you remove a fallopian tube that will certainly rupture and kill both mother and child. No one on the anti-abortion side truly has such a black-and-white view of abortion. <br />Neither do pro-choice activists. The key issue pro-choice activists struggle with is when do we say it’s permissible to murder? Most would like to say “never” and would do, but they put a box around abortion as an exception. Then when you ask why in this case is murder licit? And then come the more sophisticated excuses of bodily autonomy or they push back against the personhood argument claiming it may be human life in there, but it’s not a person and it’s permissible to murder non-persons. But what it essentially boils down to, is that for pro-choice persons murder is entirely possible for a wide range of circumstances - inconvenience, financial stress, emotional stress, duress, not wanting to see someone in pain etc.<br /><br />Most pro-choice persons will never have to engage in abortion other than from their armchair (thankfully) but for those who do, the realisation of destroying human life catches up with them eventually. This is why it’s pernicious and should be illegal in almost every circumstance, not just to protect the child.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com