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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
Dude, you've lost the plot completely, and now I really do believe you're just trolling.
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Literally everything I've written has been perfectly logically consistent.
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What you just described is being pro-choice. Tons of people believe that abortion is ethically wrong
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If you think it's ethically wrong then by definition you're saying people shouldn't do it. That's what "ethically wrong"
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a. Banning abortion doesn't stop abortion;
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Whether the measures taken to try to stop something that you think is ethically wrong are effective or not has nothing to do with its rightness or wrongness. This is irrelevant.
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b. The life of the fetus is not the only life at stake in all circumstances;
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This is the entire basis of the argument for it NOT being ethically wrong.
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c. That one's own ethics are not necessarily universally held;
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The fact that other people are acting in an unethical fashion because they don't think it's unethical is irrelevant - if YOU think it's unethical, that means that literally by definition you think they should not do that thing.
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d. That the number of abortions has been going down under the current US laws.
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Again, this empirical fact has nothing to do with whether the act itself is right or wrong in any particular case.
It's as if you fundamentally don't understand what ethics are. The question is, "how ought people to act". That question can be answered generally or specifically. But if your answer is people ought to not have abortions because an abortion is essentially killing a baby, but people should have the right to do that unfettered, you're just... insane.
Unless you have some other reason why abortion would be morally wrong.