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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That article's part of a philosophical debate about abortion in
@ArcDigi, which I think is one of the best things we've published. Here's the first entry, by@bernybelvedere https://arcdigital.media/abortion-is-wrong-even-if-the-fetus-is-not-a-person-bd7552841366 … 4/x2 replies 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
Kevin Williamson saying women who get abortions should be hanged is ridiculous. But he's right that murder should be punished. I don't know Williamson's intentions, but he highlighted a contradiction in pro-life arguments. If abortion shouldn't be punished, it's not murder. (END)
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Pro life people wiggle out of this argument by saying that the doctors performing the abortions are the ones who should be punished.
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I've heard that, but it's insufficient. For one, women who choose abortion clearly participate in the act. That level of participation in murder is a serious crime. And what about abortions in which a doctor is not involved? Murder without a professional killer is still murder.
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