Wednesday, November 09, 2005

AskPhilosphers: One can be both pro-life and pro-choice

Richard Heck in AskPhilosphers.org argues
There need be nothing inconsistent about this position. The first view, that abortion is morally impermissible, is a moral or ethical view. The second view, that each woman should be permitted to choose for herself whether to have an abortion, is a political view, one about what laws a state ought to have. The combination is therefore consistent so long as one denies that, if it is morally impermissible to do A, then it ought to be illegal to do A. ...

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