{"id":12669,"date":"2009-04-26T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/26\/opposition-to-abortion-need-not-be-religiously-based\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T16:25:11","slug":"opposition-to-abortion-need-not-be-religiously-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/26\/opposition-to-abortion-need-not-be-religiously-based\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition to Abortion Need Not be Religiously Based"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">It is commonly assumed that opposition to abortion can be based only on religious premises. To show that this assumption is false, only one counterexample is needed. What follows is an anti-abortion argument that does not invoke any religious tenet:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">(1) Infanticide is morally wrong; (2) There is no morally relevant difference between abortion and infanticide; ergo, (3) Abortion is morally wrong.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Whether one accepts this argument or not, it clearly invokes no religious premise. It is therefore manifestly incorrect to say or imply that all opposition to abortion is religiously-based. Theists and atheists alike can make use of the above argument.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Is it a good argument? Well, it is <em>valid<\/em> as logicians use this term: if one accepts the premises, then one must accept the conclusion. That is a logical \u2018must\u2019: one who accepts the premises but balks at the conclusion embraces a contradiction. But there is nothing to stop the argument from being run in reverse: Deny the conclusion, then deny one or both of the premises. Thus, one might argue from ~(3) and (2) to ~(1). Someone who argues in this way is within his logical rights, but is saddled with having to swallow the moral acceptability of infanticide.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is commonly assumed that opposition to abortion can be based only on religious premises. To show that this assumption is false, only one counterexample is needed. What follows is an anti-abortion argument that does not invoke any religious tenet: (1) Infanticide is morally wrong; (2) There is no morally relevant difference between abortion and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/26\/opposition-to-abortion-need-not-be-religiously-based\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opposition to Abortion Need Not be Religiously Based&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}