Should abortion remain a woman's right to choose, even though it is probably immoral?

• Things do not become illegal, just because they are immoral. Moral decisions are usually made by individuals, rather than by act of government. In the abortion debate, there are many anti-abortionists who confuse the issue of morality with the law. Abortion, they reason, should be illegal because it is immoral. By contrast, the "pro-choice" lobby argue that abortion should be a woman's right to choose. However, just because women have the right to choose, it does not necessarily follow that any choice they make will be a good moral choice. Giving people the right to choose means that people can make bad choices! The strange thing is that I never hear feminists acknowledging that abortion is a moral problem and I never hear anti-abortionists acknowledging that there could be significant problems in outlawing abortion.

• Answer:

  You don't state whether you think that it is acceptable that morality doesn't necessarily play a roll in law making. I think that it should but, unfortunately, often doesn't. Our moral code derives from fundamental Christian principles, and that they both should inform the laws that we choose to live under. I don't think that mankind was capable of creating a set of moral principle's to live by, without drawing from religious teachings because, how would they know that they had created a truly moral code? However, I am well aware that some of our laws seemed to have had a morality bypass during their making. And abortion, is top of the list for me. I know that all those things that might be considered immoral, can't necessarily be made illegal. But in those areas where we do create legislation, then surely there shouldn't be a conflict between morality and the law. Back to abortion, which I think can only be justified in the most extreme cases. Feminists, in their zeal to give more and more power to women, seem to have bullied the government and medical researches into giving them what they want, "The Woman's right to choose". If ever there was a bit of creative morality, that's it. That's why I stated above, the danger in mankind inventing morality out of thin air. The woman's, "right to choose" can be re-interpreted as "the baby has no inherent right to life" and "the man, also, has no say in the matter". This looks like feminists gaining power for its own sake, regardless of moral considerations. Isn't it also a direct assault on what it is to be a woman, caring, nurturing. Shouldn't this operate at an instinctive level. If we don't care for our children why should we care for each other, not to mention the old, the sick. I believe that there are about three hundred and eighty thousand abortions in the UK alone, each year. Because the legislators have given a green light to abortion, and the medical profession are quite happy to carry them out, then women think that all moral considerations have been taken care of on their behalf. But, as you point out in your question, women still have a moral choice to make. Following my logic, abortion, on the scale that currently exists, wouldn't be allowed under the law, because I would not pass immoral legislation. Where is the so called 'Human Rights' for unborn, never to be born, children. Feminists, don't see a moral problem, because the left wing zealots don't believe in God or religion. They are truly operating in their own moral universe.