abortion

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Oct 11 10:22:28 PDT 2002


Brian wrote:


> An ad hominem against Carroll doesn't make abortion wrong, though.
> Carroll's and Gordon's points are correct. If we are going to say
> that abortion shouldn't be criminalized due simply to logistical concerns
> (Yoshie) or because "it won't work" (Dennis), then we're still not
> addressing the deeper moral/ethical issue. And Gordon and Carroll did just
> that - sufficiently.
>
> Brian

No, they haven't. Killing fetuses isn't OK because they're "invaders" or "parasites." Both analogies are flawed and unnecessarily inflammatory. Rather, fetuses aren't persons and have no interests, so it's hard to see how aborting them raises any particularly troubling moral issues.

-- Luke



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