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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.204918.12905@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 20:49:18 GMT
- References: <root.726528897@spssig> <1993Jan9.011454.13091@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan9.073808.8862@netcom.com>
- Organization: Who, me???
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- In article <1993Jan9.073808.8862@netcom.com> ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes ...
- >>This argument from Steve Adams is especially confusing.
- >>First he states that abortion is morally wrong from a
- >>religious perspective, and then he goes on to argue that
- >>abortion is not morally wrong from a secular perspective
- >>(i.e. the woman has a "liberty interest" and a "right" in
- >>protecting herself). How is it possible to argue two sides
- >>of the same coin here?
- >
- >Easy.
- >
- >Law and Morality are not the same thing.
- >
- >Laws are designed to enable society to function. Morals govern
- >personal behavior. Abortion is legal because society works better
- >that way. But it is not moral according to some Christians (for
- >whatever reasons). Since there is nothing in the laws preventing
- >Christians from acting according to their faith, it makes perfect
- >sense to have abortion be legal but proscribed.
-
- Law is a subset of morality. Functionally, the major distinguishing
- feature of law, as opposed to other types of morality, is that law
- has certain enforcement options that the other types lack, being
- that it is, by definition, a coercive monopoly on force.
-
- - Kevin
-