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Abortion might be murder

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Published by DanielLC, December 21, 2009, 6:23 am GMT
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1) PREMISE:

Abortion kills a fetus.

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2) PREMISE:

A fetus is a person.

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3) IF 1 AND 2 IT LIKELY FOLLOWS THAT:

Abortion kills a person.

This likelihood varies throughout pregnancy. At some point, it gets high enough for premise 9 to be true.

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4) PREMISE:

Killing someone to protect your bodily integrity is still murder.

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5) PREMISE:

If you get pregnant, it's your fault the fetus is in a position where it needs to take nutrients from you to survive, and killing the fetus can't be construed as self-defense.

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6) IF 4 AND 5 IT LIKELY FOLLOWS THAT:

4 or 5, actually, but there's no way of showing that.

If a fetus is a person, killing it is murder.

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7) IF 3 AND 6 IT LIKELY FOLLOWS THAT:

Abortion is murder.

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8) IF 7 IT LIKELY FOLLOWS THAT:

For every abortion allowed, the expected number of murders is 0.05.

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9) PREMISE:

The right to life is more than 20 times as important as the right to bodily integrity.

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10) PREMISE:

Preventing abortion infringes on the mother's right to bodily integrity.

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11) IF 10 IT LIKELY FOLLOWS THAT:

For every abortion prevented, the number of women who's rights are violated is 1.

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12) IF 8,9 AND 11 IT LIKELY FOLLOWS THAT:

Abortion should be illegal.

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