Re: Responsibility for children

From: hal@finney.org
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 15:22:18 MDT


Bryan writes:
> If you consider abortion to be a "necessary evil" - morally
> dubious but of great convenience to women - this might seem
> like a compromise. However, if you consider abortion to be
> ethical the above solution is not ethical.

But isn't it inconsistent to have a blanket statement that abortion is
ethical while infanticide is not? A baby one day from being born can
be killed, while a baby one day after being born cannot? There is not
a clean line between these two cases. Birth is a process, not an event.

This is the tension which drives the search for a better solution.

Hal



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