Oh yes, they can, both cases have far reaching similarities:
- both involve highly emotional moral dilemmas about termination of a human life - both involve conflicting views on that subject that can be neither reconciled nor dismissed (i.e. a dilemma) - both involve an impossible ethical choice for anyone seriously concerned about the value of human life - both involve an appeal to collective norms, laws and public institutions to resolve that dilemma - in both cases public opinion has been split between the two conflicting views - in both cases the state intervention favoring any if these conflicting views would anger the adherents of the opposing views
and last but not least - both have been turned into media and political circuses by moral entrepreneurs who use them merely as propaganda tools for their political causes.
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