Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: tortoise
To me the issue is simple, we don't have the right to decide beforehand who is worthy to live or die. Based on convenience.
291 posted on 11/27/2001 7:00:13 AM PST by wwjdn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 220 | View Replies ]


To: wwjdn
To me the issue is simple, we don't have the right to decide beforehand who is worthy to live or die.

Yet everyone does this every single day, "for convenience". You are giving nothing but platitudes really. Loving parents do things that vastly increase the odds of their children being killed every day for their own convenience. It is an inavoidable fact of life. A person doesn't have value based solely on their biological existence. Humans aren't even independent moral actors until they reach a certain age.

My real point is that any argument premised on full rights from conception has very bad consequences to you and I that are not being addressed. If you ascribe effectively unlimited moral value to ALL people, born or otherwise, then every parent is a criminal of the worst kind. If one doesn't accept the full consequences of ascribing these values to a fetus, then the argument is reduced to moral relativism which I believe most pro-lifers reject (I know I do). These problems have never been properly worked out and make the foundations of the pro-life movement shaky indeed if they cannot be addressed in reasonable manner.

313 posted on 11/27/2001 10:14:20 AM PST by tortoise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 291 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson