Re: Sklansky on Abortion
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the only case I consider legitimate is one where the life of the mother is threatened, which is rarely the case.
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When abortion was illegal, many women died obtaining "back-alley" abortions. If abortion was to be made illegal, the same would happen today. Therefore, by providing legal abortions, the healthcare system is saving the lives of countless women.
As a result of this, even if you believe abortion to be immoral it would be horribly crule of you to call for the outlawing of abortion because in doing so you would be causing thousands of women to die.
In making laws with such vast consequences to the health of thousands of Americans one must look at the real world consequences of those laws and not just spout morality without any concern for the effect that that morality would produce.
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In not outlawing driving we cause tens and tens of thousands to die each year in car crashes. Is it terribly immoral to allow people to drive?
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