[MD] Morality, Abortion and the MoQ

[Michael Poloukhine]

> > Michael wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Ham wrote:
> I think you have answered your own question, Michael.  Who, indeed,
> has the 
> final authority on behalf of an unborn child?   Not the father.  Not
> the 
> courts.  Not a philosopher's maxim.  Certainly not society.  A fetus
> is not 
> a "person" capable of deciding for itself, thus it has no "power of
> authority".  This authority rests solely with the mother who
> conceived it, 
> "because she is the only one that can see it to birth."

MP: Taking aside your "fetus is not a person" statement, which, if we could get 
some MoQers to chime in on we might be able to put it to MoQ moral rest....

The application of morals is an intellectual process. Her intellectual process had 
nothing to do with the actual conception. 

She did not design the egg. She does not decide that the egg should drop. She 
does not decide if this or that egg gets fertilized. She does not by will implant 
the egg. She does not will an implanted egg to grow. She is nothing but a 
vessel in a process over which she has little to no say. 

So from where does her sole unequivocal and singular *moral* authority 
emanate?

And she can't do it without a man. She is *not* the only one that can make 
conception happen. If that intercourse that led to the conception was 
consentual, then *she* has *intellectually* abdicated any such sole moral 
authority by allowing that intercourse by choice. She allowed the man to be 
involved in the process of conception, the process that brings about the life in 
question, and that simple act now includes at least the two of them as moral 
arbiters.

The one with the uterus has the power. This is without question. But power is 
not a determinant for moral standing, in fact it usually is the opposite. It is 
usually the exercise of personal will over moral standing.

So what is the argument for her unequivocal and singular *moral* authority on 
the issue?

MP
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"Don't believe everything you think."