Moral Philosophy

Emboldened by the new composition of the Supreme Court,conservative state legislatures are rushing to enact restrictions on abortion in the hope that laws making the procedure almost unobtainable will be upheld, and perhaps that Roe  v Wade will be overturned entirely. Opposition to legal abortion in the U.S. is largely congruent with  particular brands of Christianity, that is also associated with strict sexual morality including condemnation of homosexuality and adultery. (Although lots of their proponents have turned out to be adulterers and homosexuals, but that ' s another story.) These are most notably right wing evangelicalism, and Roman Catholicism.Obviously, I can ' t make a logical or fact based argument against what is to some people a fundamental moral tenet. For a lot of these people, abortion and homosexuality are just icky and that ' s probably where it begins and ends. However, there are some factual claims or arguments that people often make when promoting an anti-abortion position.Most fundamentally, they claim that God condemns abortion, that it is a sin according Christian belief. It is astonishing to me that we hardly ever see anyone point out that there is not one word about abortion anywhere in the Bible, Old Testament or New. I know that because unlike the vast majority of self-proclaimed Christians, I have actually read the Bible. There is a passage in numbers which some people interpret as a ceremonyfor the purpose of inducing abortion, in ...
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