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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 |
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