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Don Marquis: “Why Abortion is Immoral”
Don Marquis University of Kansas I knew him pretty well. Got tenure by accident. This is an excellent essay. I don't know how he managed to write it.
Some stage-setting
An issue Marquis sets aside Most of the debate about abortion concerns facts about the capabilities of the fetus at the time of abortion. For example, a fetus cannot live by itself, it cannot interact or think or, at early stages, feel. The bible is a very insecure basis for arguing that abortion is immoral.
Why care what the fetus is or does? Implicitly, the argument in the background is this: The fetus is/does/has X (a baby, a person, a human, a heartbeat, a soul, feels pain, thinks, etc.) Because the fetus has/does/is X, it is seriously wrong to kill a fetus . So it is seriously wrong to kill a fetus.
What is really at issue What's really at issue is whether or not a fetus is the kind of thing it is seriously wrong to kill . It is pointless to argue about whether a fetus has/does/is any of these things unless these things make it wrong to kill something. So you ought first to look at what makes it wrong to kill something. If the fetus has the features that make it wrong to kill something, then abortion is wrong.
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