The Psychoses (was Re: ...muck...)

JKSCHW at aol.com JKSCHW at aol.com
Mon Feb 7 07:41:53 PST 2000



> There is no existing religion that says that a

woman who aborts is acting according to God's will.

Traditional Judaism does not prohibit abortions--nor, of course, does modern Reform Judaism. Neither does Unitarianism (though Unitarians might be doubted to be Theists), not United Methodism, or the UCC or most of the liberal Christain denominations.

I wasn't going to pitch in here, but I will just say that anyone who thinks that moral and/or ethical talk (I doin't distinguish between these terms) reduces to Divine Command Theory, i.e., that what's good and right is so because God said so, has an immense burden to carry. The standard ethical theories, utilitarianism and deontology, make no obvious reference to anything theological.

--jks



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