Ray Fischer
June 15th 05, 05:42 AM
Wilmdale > wrote:
>What is legal is not always right.
What you want is not always legal or moral.
> One of the weakest arguments for the
>legitimacy of abortion is that it is legal.
But that argument is rarely used (if ever), and so it looks like
you're battling against a convenient strawman.
> Civil law does not determine
>morality.
Neither do you.
> Rather, the law should reflect a morality that exists
>independently of the law.
Whose morality is that?
> "In the last century, slave owners argued that the slaves were theirs
>and they had the right to do with them as they wished. [Slave owners]
Much as abortion opponents argue that a fetus should have the right to
do as it wishes with the woman's body.
[...]
>With advances in technology and in understanding of human fetal
>development, premature babies' chances of survival are improving.
They are not. There has been almost no change in the past couple of
decades.
> The
>RCOG stated in Preterm Labour and its Consequences (1985) that: "In 1984,
It's now 20 years later.
>the womb has become the
>most dangerous place in America.
That's just a stupid lie.
--
Ray Fischer
>What is legal is not always right.
What you want is not always legal or moral.
> One of the weakest arguments for the
>legitimacy of abortion is that it is legal.
But that argument is rarely used (if ever), and so it looks like
you're battling against a convenient strawman.
> Civil law does not determine
>morality.
Neither do you.
> Rather, the law should reflect a morality that exists
>independently of the law.
Whose morality is that?
> "In the last century, slave owners argued that the slaves were theirs
>and they had the right to do with them as they wished. [Slave owners]
Much as abortion opponents argue that a fetus should have the right to
do as it wishes with the woman's body.
[...]
>With advances in technology and in understanding of human fetal
>development, premature babies' chances of survival are improving.
They are not. There has been almost no change in the past couple of
decades.
> The
>RCOG stated in Preterm Labour and its Consequences (1985) that: "In 1984,
It's now 20 years later.
>the womb has become the
>most dangerous place in America.
That's just a stupid lie.
--
Ray Fischer