Abortion vs. Murder
Death: Natural
Abortion: Sometimes Natural
Murder: Wrong
Killing: Sometimes Wrong
Life of a nother in jeopardy: Killing allowed.
Life of a mother in jeapardy: Abortion allowed.
Laws against murder do not stop them.
Laws against abortions will not stop them.
Laws in both cases (would) show our appreciation for life and its protection.
3 comments:
True, but I would argue that a law against abortion would also greatly reduce this abomination. Those who oppose anti-abortion laws carefully neglect the fact that abortions increased by over an order of magnitude after Roe V. Wade.
Put gently, it's hard to hide the fact that you're performing a surgery, especially when you goof up from time to time and need to send your mistakes to the emergency room or morgue.
And I would agree that outlawing abortion would diminish its occurrence.
(The background on the post is that I was discussing the subject with a Libertarian Baptist (what?!? ;^) and he generally opposes laws that are unenforceable.)
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Got it. Perhaps the question, then, is how we define unenforceable. Does it mean that it still happens, even with the law in place? Then every law is unenforceable--we haven't fired all the police and sold their black & whites, have we? Shall we have anarchy?
Or does unenforceable mean that it's hard to collect evidence without violating other moral laws? If so, we again have a clear example from history that anti-infanticide laws were in fact enforceable.
Either way, I simply don't see your friend's point.
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