[MD] Morality, Abortion and the MoQ

[Michael Poloukhine]

> >>> [Jennifer Aniston]
> >>> "No uterus. No opinion!"
> >
> > MP: When Jennifer Anniston can accomplish immaculate conception,
> she'll
> > have more solid moral ground to stand on. Meanwhile, she's pitting
> > politics
> > against reasoned thought on morality. That *always* comes back to
> bite 
> > you in
> > the @ss.
> >
> 
> Steve:
> What does immaculate conception have to do with morality? How would
> her 
> getting pregnant spontaneously give her any moral standing that she
> doesn't already have?

MP: Immaculate conception means she is the *only* one that was involved in 
the pregnancy, she created the life inside her, and no other person played a 
part. In this scenario, she has some moral standing to say "no uterus, no 
opinion" as it is her uterus that can create life, and thus her uterus can take it 
away.

But that's not the case is it?

If a woman is pregnant, a man was involved. No if ands or buts about that one. 
It takes two parts joined to allow that life to start; one from the woman, one from 
the man. That the life (so far) can only gestate within a woman is no small 
detail, I don't deny this. But what is the *moral* reasoning that it is by default her 
sole moral authority to decide on the issue of the *life* so created within her 
because she is the only one of the two that can see it to birth? 

This is not moral standing. This is just power. And power corrupts, in this case, 
moral standing.




MP
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"Don't believe everything you think."