{"id":2208,"date":"2022-02-18T15:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/secular-arguments-against-abortion\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:40:52","slug":"secular-arguments-against-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/secular-arguments-against-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Secular Arguments against Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/secular-arguments-against-abortion\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">A question rarely asked is the one I raise in this article:&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Is the abortion question tied to religion in such a way that&#0160;opposition to abortion can be based only on religious premises?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Or are there good reasons to oppose abortion that&#0160;are nor religiously based, reasons that secularists could accept?&#0160; The answer to the last question is plainly in the affirmative.&#0160; The following argument contains no religious premises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">1) Infanticide is morally wrong.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">2) There is no morally relevant difference between (late-term) abortion and&#0160; infanticide.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Therefore<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">3) (Late-term) abortion is morally wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. A question rarely asked is the one I raise in this article:&#0160;&#0160; Is the abortion question tied to religion in such a way that&#0160;opposition to abortion can be based only on religious premises? Or are there good reasons to oppose abortion that&#0160;are nor religiously based, reasons that secularists could accept?&#0160; The answer to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/secular-arguments-against-abortion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Secular Arguments against Abortion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","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=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}