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Sun 14 Oct, 2012 12:58 pm
In altruist society taking a life is always an evil but sometimes a moral necessity.
Matters of life and death, and the taking of life, is a moral concern for all society and its legislature - male and female.
Does the woman 'own' the foetus, or is she carrying a foetus that belongs to her and her husband, and to society.
When does a foetus become at least a marginally sapient being, that owns itself.
When does the taking of its life cease to be the destruction unformed cells, and become the killing of a marginally formed and functioning human being.
At what point does a woman 'in control of her body' become a woman 'in control of two bodies'.
Few societies are all that altruistic. There must be elements of both opposites to satisfy the needs of both individuals and societal groups. I don't speculate on purely altruistic versus purely selfish.
@RW Standing,
Good and evil are relative: If the porker were in charge we'd be the evil ones
The same humanoid that bewails abortion as evil hangs Porky up by the hind legs then bleeds him to death before tearing him open and eating him
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