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To the Greater Glory of Iblis
13 years ago
I was recently witness to a discussion in which a somewhat conservative-minded fellow explained to a more liberally-minded fellow his feelings on abortion, and how it's wrong, given that despite an embryo/fetus is not necessarily a human life yet, the fact that it may become one makes it morally relevant.
I personally don't agree with this line of argument.
Regardless, the liberally-minded fellow responded that despite this, no one has the right to tell a woman what to do with her own body and the contents of it. Certainly, no one has the right to force a woman through nine months of hardship and pain, even if the alternative means that there may be one excess life lost.
This line of argument I found extremely convincing.
What boggled my mind about this argument is that if it was applied in any other circumstance, those on the left would decry it as heartless, cold, and ethically untenable.
If no one has the right to force a woman to sustain a pregnancy through to the end, then why on Earth does the government have the right to force you to work for it for months out of the year, every year? If the fact that an excess life may be lost as a result of this non-aggression is simply inevitable with respect to abortion, then why is the fact that some people might die if there exists no nationalized healthcare scheme regarded as something different?
In the name of the Devil, right wingers piss me off in many ways with their religiosity and their drug war mongering, but left wingers are just bad--if not worse--in many of the same ways.
I personally don't agree with this line of argument.
Regardless, the liberally-minded fellow responded that despite this, no one has the right to tell a woman what to do with her own body and the contents of it. Certainly, no one has the right to force a woman through nine months of hardship and pain, even if the alternative means that there may be one excess life lost.
This line of argument I found extremely convincing.
What boggled my mind about this argument is that if it was applied in any other circumstance, those on the left would decry it as heartless, cold, and ethically untenable.
If no one has the right to force a woman to sustain a pregnancy through to the end, then why on Earth does the government have the right to force you to work for it for months out of the year, every year? If the fact that an excess life may be lost as a result of this non-aggression is simply inevitable with respect to abortion, then why is the fact that some people might die if there exists no nationalized healthcare scheme regarded as something different?
In the name of the Devil, right wingers piss me off in many ways with their religiosity and their drug war mongering, but left wingers are just bad--if not worse--in many of the same ways.
