Absolutely!! Unless of course we are talking about “burdening” certain women (or certain men) with the inconvenience of giving birth to another person.
In this case, science has absolutely no place in the conversation!! I don’t care when life starts!! No scientist should be allowed to weigh in on whether or not abortion is murder!!!
Following this logic, someone who kills a pregnant mother shouldn’t be held liable for the murder of 2 people! And fathers who do not want to be fathers but are being forced into the situation should not be held liable for caring for a bundle of cells that they didn’t want!
All of these double standards are tiring and gross!!
I don’t know whether or not this is sarcasm, and frankly - it doesn’t matter. Science provides the facts - it does not provide values. You need to combine facts with values in order to come up with an ethical verdict.
If the resulting verdict is not what you wanted, you can always rethink your values. This is essentially what philosophers have done for millennia. It does mean you’ll need to defend your new values, of course, but you don’t have to stick with old values when it turns out they have bad implications.
What you don’t get to do, is decide to ignore or twist the facts. The facts don’t change just because they’re inconvenient. If you lie in order to get the ethical verdict you desire, then you are tautologically in the wrong.
Absolutely!! Unless of course we are talking about “burdening” certain women (or certain men) with the inconvenience of giving birth to another person.
In this case, science has absolutely no place in the conversation!! I don’t care when life starts!! No scientist should be allowed to weigh in on whether or not abortion is murder!!!
Following this logic, someone who kills a pregnant mother shouldn’t be held liable for the murder of 2 people! And fathers who do not want to be fathers but are being forced into the situation should not be held liable for caring for a bundle of cells that they didn’t want!
All of these double standards are tiring and gross!!
I don’t know whether or not this is sarcasm, and frankly - it doesn’t matter. Science provides the facts - it does not provide values. You need to combine facts with values in order to come up with an ethical verdict.
If the resulting verdict is not what you wanted, you can always rethink your values. This is essentially what philosophers have done for millennia. It does mean you’ll need to defend your new values, of course, but you don’t have to stick with old values when it turns out they have bad implications.
What you don’t get to do, is decide to ignore or twist the facts. The facts don’t change just because they’re inconvenient. If you lie in order to get the ethical verdict you desire, then you are tautologically in the wrong.