Sculptor wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 10:00 am
Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:34 am
Sculptor wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:01 am
If abortion, being universal, would be common enough as to threaten humanity, then this would represent a serious claim that all antiabortion was totally unethical since it would be setting up such proscription against human activity as to prevent millions of women from making a free choice.
The fact is that the only time where abortion were to be so common as to threaten the existence of the human species would be where women were raped into pregnancy rather than becoming pregnant through choice.
The claim you make is the height of hyperbolic absurdity.
In reality universal abortion rights have always led to good things. Abortion has many advantages.
Birth control makes great sense in a time of dwindling resources.
Abortion in particular ensures that raped women are not doubly punished by having to carry the spawn of their attacker.
Abortion is also beneficial to allow women to avoid bringing children with serious birth defects into the world.
There is no reasonable grounds for making timely abortion illegal, none. And no man is even qualified to suggest that.
You have missed many of my points above.
I did not say, abortion should be made illegal.
I stated the ZERO Abortion moral rule should not be enforced, i.e. legally.
- Thus the absolute moral rule is 'No Abortion is permitted', ZERO Abortion.
But this is merely a guide for improvement, it should not be enforced.
I was responding to what you actually said.
Where?
I stated above, right in front of you, the rule on Zero Abortion should not be enforced, i.e. within jurisprudence.
The point here is we do not mix morality & ethics with jurisprudence [politics].
Abortion is and always has been perfectly moral.
I define morality is the establishment of secular moral rules as Guides.
In this sense, ZERO Abortion is morally right.
To permit any abortion is immoral.
Morality and Ethics are personal affairs like making personal resolutions to improve oneself, in this case by adopting absolute moral rules as a GUIDE only.
If one breaks one's own rules out of critical necessity [e.g. rape, etc.], there is no punishment, but the standard set should spur one/others to avoid and improve later.
How to get every individual to do the above is the question for another topic on morality and ethics.
To make abortion a right or legal to resolve something like overpopulation and the likes is very immoral and inefficient.
I never claimed that. You just made the idiotic remark that universally available abortion would be a threat to the human species, which is idiotic.
You are the idiot one who is not using your reasoning power.
In practice, it may not seem to be the case, the human species will be threatened.
What I reasoned 'if abortion is permitted as a universal right' then
THEORETICALLY it could be a threat to the human species. You deny this theoretical possibility?
The fact is there is already a trend of the modern couples not wanting to have and take care of babies for a range of reasons, e.g. more freedom, financial constraints, etc. thus their options to abort for any unplanned pregnancy.
There is a possibility the maternal and paternal instincts of humans could be eroded by various reasons.
Thus to ensure this THEORETICAL possibility do not materialize, it would be safer to adopt the secular moral rule of 'ZERO Abortion' as an overriding GUIDE which is not legally enforceable.
Moments of passion??
That is my point, as human beings we should not be like wild animals which are driven by their moments of passion and will even kill to ensure the consummation of that passion.
When we contrast the ZERO Abortion standard against moments of passion, humanity will find ways to deal with those 'moments of passion' to a minimum to avoid any potential for abortion.
Note I suggested we deal with the root causes to prevent people from landing humans into a decision of whether to abort or not.
As I had stated the 'ZERO Abortion' target is merely a guide and not a legal enforcement.
Therefore if anyone want or it is necessary to break one's own rule, then one can do the abortion [this time only] against the overriding rule of No Abortion which will prevail in the future.
Telling a woman she is wrong to have an abortion under any circumstance is immoral.
You missed my point.
In Morality and Ethics, there is no one telling a woman she is wrong to have an abortion.
The effective approach is for each women and man to develop a self-program in voluntarily accepting with understand and realization, the standard of ZERO abortion is a win-win for all. However this is only a guiding standard and thus critical exceptions are acceptable. If one made a mistake, the guiding standard will guide one to improve to avoid one own standard.
What is critical for humanity is to understand what are the root causes of abortion. The abortion equation is;
- Humans + sex instinct + lust + no planning + no contraceptive methods + bad impulse controls + no holistic outlook + [?others] = unwanted conception or babies.
You forgot to include rape and moments of wonderful unbridled passion.
Note the variable 'lust' where one will improve to restraining one's unbridled passion.
It is immature to think unbrigled wild passion is wonderful. Note deliberately planned sex sessions will give greater sense of passion than wild ones, e.g. tantra, 24 hours lasting orgasms, etc.
Maybe you should take you half baked ideas to the church, because they are the ones banning other forms of birth control.
Yes, note I mentioned the theistic element and my quest to prove 'God is impossible to be real', thus cutting off the grounds for theists in banning birth control and advocating no abortion in practice.
Thus the critical approach is to tackle the critical root causes effectively on a progressive basis and the number of abortions will be reduced gradually.
Within the 'no holistic outlook' we will look at the theistic factor where God do not permit abortion.
God aborts more foetuses than humans. Think about it!
God is not anti-abortion - he does it all the time
As mentioned above my proof 'God is an impossibility' is to counter this.
With the proof 'God is an impossibility to exists as real' that will cut off the ground for any real God to command abortion as a sin.
verbal diarrhoea.
All the root causes will be dealt with to resolve the issue of abortion.
The problem is you
Can't you see the logic?
Can you counter my point;
With the proof 'God is an impossibility to exists as real' that will cut off the ground for any real God to command abortion as a sin.
Because of Human beings being human, it is not likely abortion will be ZERO, but the ideal target is a standard that drives improvement toward the ideal.
Tell that to god, whose "natural" abortion rate is between 10-20% of all human pregnancies.
One study in Denmark, which included 1,221,546 pregnancies between 1978 and 1992, found the overall miscarriage rate was 13.5 percent.
When we can convinced theists 'God is an impossibility to exists as real' in the future, the above issues will be resolved.