[lbo-talk] the ideology of abortion as 'murder'

[Stephen Philion]

CJE wrote
I meant merely to show the inadequacy of the argument, "Abortion is
justified because women have been oppressed,"

--because the argument is not the one that is used to justify the legal
right to choose whether or not to have an abortion (with the exception  of
restrictions on the last 3 months of pregnancy), you are raising a
non-sequitor, possibly the non-sequitor of non-sequitors.
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In each case the premise is true, but the conclusion doesn't follow.

--utterly not true. the argument for legalization of abortion has nothing to
do with 'because women are oppressed they should have a right to
abortion'...zero.
the argument, in a nutshell is, 'because my god tells me he thinks abortion
is murder, therefore I think abortion should be treated in the legal code as
an act of murder".

steve