[MD] Morality, Abortion and the MoQ

[Steve Peterson]

Hi All,

The MOQ takes an evolutionary view, which means that besides the "line 
drawing" problem in fetal development for defining humanity leading the 
absolutists to draw the line the only place they can, at the moment of 
conception, there is also the problem of deciding at what point in 
human evolution do we draw the line and say, "from this point forward 
all descendants are human." Obviously, there is no analogous "moment of 
conception" for making the distinction between human and non-human in 
biological evolutionary terms. Do you see the problem here? 
Anti-abortionism is about protecting specifically human life, not just 
any life, but there is no such thing as humanity from the evolutionary 
perspective unless you buy into Adam and Eve or some other distinct 
first humans from which all others descend. Humanity itself is 
distinguished only by an arbitrary line that modern humans decide to 
draw at some point in evolutionary history.

Best,
Steve