Doesn't make abortion any less wrong.
As I said, right wingers don't understand the concepts of legal and illegal. You don't run a country based on what each individual determines in their head is right and wrong. That is called anarchy. Democrats support what we call laws.
I'm very far left. I just know that abortion is wrong.
Excellent riposte!
I know that abortion is right and very good because it prevents women from having children that they do not want, which increases their autonomy,
This is a potentially good argument for abortion in a utilitarian moral framework.
This is indisputably a good argument for abortion in a utilitarian moral framework.
This is a disgusting argument for abortion in practically any moral framework.
I mean, it would be more congruent if you said "utilitarian moral framework" as well seeing as sex produces a lot of happiness when it's consensual but that's of little import.
Anyways, I'd argue that a fetus obviously and clearly impinges upon the autonomy of the mother. I'm not exactly breaking new ground by making this argument, of course, but it's worth re-stating that there are clear deontological grounds for abortion as a social good, which is actually the grounds for my argument. Coming from a perspective in which moral laws, set from by the self as a free/rational agent who has the capacity to choose between different conceptions of the good, are the highest form of ethics, it's not exactly hard to see why I would support "the right to choose" and why, as an individual, I might support abortion. Because I believe in family planning, the act of starting a family as an active rather than as a passive choice, I cannot condone the idea of a "unwanted" pregnancy, which flies in the face of my view of the family as a consensual arrangement freely chosen rather than as a burden imposed by someone else. The decision to have a child cannot be taken lightly and it is a choice. If it is not a choice, the child should not come into existence, that's preposterous.
To add to this, I think your argument is "fetus is a person" or something rooted in your faith, which is understandable, but I will stand for the claim that I am a utilitarian because I care more about living human beings and their capacity to live fulfilling lives crafted by their will than potential human beings. This is not to say that I do not think that the potential human beings, who have the genetic structure of a human being and who are living beings, don't have moral standing, they do, but that standing is clearly trumped by the mother's standing and both standings cannot be decoupled.
