Abortion is murder but shouldn't be punished. How to square that circle? We punish killing except in self-defense, war (mostly), and accident (sometimes). Abortion is none of those. "Murder" is the word for unjustified killing that must, in the name of justice, be punished. 1/x
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If you don't want to punish women who get abortions as murderers--or at least as accessories to murder--then you think abortion is justified killing, or you don't think it's murder at all. 2/x
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I don't think it's murder, which makes it easy for me to say abortion should not be punished. As I argue in this article, it's not murder because a fetus is not the same as a person. But that doesn't mean it has zero moral value, like a few skin cells. 3/xhttps://arcdigital.media/the-legality-and-morality-of-abortion-5f771ebe27fd …
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One other way to look at a fetus is to look at end of life. A fetus has less brain activity than someone declared "brain dead". We consider them, in effect, dead. Similar is a fetus.
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Sort of. Other articles in the series (not by me) address this question. For example, one writer argues that the moral value of a human being derives from one having a future. In that sense, a fetus has a future, but someone declared brain dead does not.
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