Re: Abortion: Case study
Andrea, on host 209.182.137.231
Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 10:21:11
Abortion: Case study posted by wintermute on Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 03:14:07:
> Was she morally right or wrong to allow eight foetuses to die because she didn't want to abort two or three of them?
Why should she be "morally right or wrong" ?
Wasn't she free to decide what to do with her pregnancy? Wasn't she free to base a decision on her own (given the necessary knowledge of any consequence of her choice)? She acted right as far as her decision was unbiased by unsolicited opinions. If she believed that abortion is murdering, she acted coherently with her thoughts, so she's definitely right because she respected herself.
I'm not in the "she was right because her opinion meets mine" party (in fact, my opinion is far away from hers); I state that she was right *if and only if* her decision was free.
AP.
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