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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I think abortion is morally wrong, but should be legally permitted, because practically speaking the consequences of forbidding it are worse than the consequences of allowing it.
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This, as I mentioned above, fails to appreciate the distinction between a right to do something and a failure to prohibit it. I don't know what consequences you're specifically referring to, but this statement necessarily implies that if there was a way to get around those consequences (some future development in society or technology or medical advancement), you would want the state to take advantage of that development and prohibit abortion at that time. It is an objection to the means by which the state is trying to prohibit the thing you think is wrong, not an objection to the prohibition in principle. That is incompatible with the statement that someone should have a
legal right to abortion that the state should not be permitted to violate.