I would say that that's where the debate is. It is my opinion that the proponents on both sides really *are* both being honest to the greatest degree they are able. That the anti-abortioners *do* believe that sperm+egg= a person, and that abortion is murder. They believe that for reasons that are every bit as well founded as is your belief to the contrary, which is to say not at all. Again, I will reiterate, there is *no* logic to be had on either side of this debate, it's *all* down to religion and appeals to consequence. On both sides.
It's *so* tempting to take our "enlightened" position and dismiss the other group, but their position is not less well founded than our own.
The sorry truth is that their position is actually *more* logically correct than ours. Because... What we are doing is often engaging in equivocation and line drawing. To say "viable" fetus which is the case in late term abortions... Well, that's pretty much a person, take it out of the mother and it'd live. "partial birth abortions" for example make a specific effort to kill the infant, which frequently survive if the proceedure is botched. So now we get into the delightful task of "line drawing", where we try to figure out which day of the pregnancy translates to that being a person in there. I can't claim much moral superiority at this point.
What I *can* claim is that I personally view slavery as a worse crime than murder. So regardless of anything else, whether or not the zygote is a person, I don't care, I remain pro-abortion because if I have to choose between ending one life and wrecking another, I will take the ending.
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Date: 2011-11-10 10:21 pm (UTC)It's *so* tempting to take our "enlightened" position and dismiss the other group, but their position is not less well founded than our own.
The sorry truth is that their position is actually *more* logically correct than ours. Because... What we are doing is often engaging in equivocation and line drawing. To say "viable" fetus which is the case in late term abortions... Well, that's pretty much a person, take it out of the mother and it'd live. "partial birth abortions" for example make a specific effort to kill the infant, which frequently survive if the proceedure is botched. So now we get into the delightful task of "line drawing", where we try to figure out which day of the pregnancy translates to that being a person in there. I can't claim much moral superiority at this point.
What I *can* claim is that I personally view slavery as a worse crime than murder. So regardless of anything else, whether or not the zygote is a person, I don't care, I remain pro-abortion because if I have to choose between ending one life and wrecking another, I will take the ending.