Author Scott Klusendorf makes this argument on abortion: Premise 1: It is wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings; Premise 2: Intentionally aborted fetuses are human beings; Premise 3: Therefore, abortion is morally wrong.
The argument is valid. So, to deny the conclusion, we would have to affirm and argue that we live in an amoral world where there is nothing wrong with things like murder, rape, and slavery. And to deny the second premise, we would either have to demonstrate that an unborn child is guilty of a capital offense. None of these options appear plausible.
Since the Roe v. Wade decision, the science of embryology like sonogram have made it harder and harder to defend abortion, which in the last 40 years has taken the life of an estimated 58.5 million children. We can see that with abortion we are dealing with systematic killing of catastrophic proportions.
Fetuses have a constitutional right to survive. Adoption is a solution for unwanted fetuses.
Tony Belliveau
Waterville
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