What Is the Lesson Here?

[orionrioniononn]

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In America, I need to know:
Where is the place for people like me,
who feel it is important for a civilized society to make abortion safe and available for those who need it
and who also believe that the ending of a pregnancy,
however it happens,
also releases a tiny spirit into the air?

~ Marie Myung-Ok Lee, the author of Somebody's Daughter: A

Comments

Re: throwing a few arguments out there

[orionrioniononn]

But that's the thing: I think that when someone makes this sort of decision, it's based less on morals and more on things like circumstances, finances, value of a life already living versus one not yet established. I am not saying that someone who gets an abortion is amoral or immoral, but that they are not considering this to be a decision of a moral nature.

I say this because I think it is why the "pro-choice" and "pro-life" camps will never be able to see eye to eye: They use different language. The former tries to argue rights and liberties and the latter tries to argue morality. How can either team debate or create a solution if they don't have the same basic givens?

I will take your word that you do not intend to make an argument based on the assumption that all people accept that abortion is the taking of a life. But I do ask you to re-read number 1 of your initial argument and perhaps watch your wording more carefully in the future. And if I have not made it clear why it seems as if you are making that assumption because of your linkage between abortion and a "moral decision," please let me know.