Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Secular Arguments against Abortion

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A question rarely asked is the one I raise in this article:  

Is the abortion question tied to religion in such a way that opposition to abortion can be based only on religious premises?

Or are there good reasons to oppose abortion that are nor religiously based, reasons that secularists could accept?  The answer to the last question is plainly in the affirmative.  The following argument contains no religious premises.

1) Infanticide is morally wrong.
2) There is no morally relevant difference between (late-term) abortion and  infanticide.
Therefore
3) (Late-term) abortion is morally wrong.


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