Blog 6

Abortion has always been a very sensitive topic.  A lot of content in this writing is directed at what is defined as killing, which is a parallel of what we define as life as well or in a more specific sense to abortion, where life starts. My first question is about killing though. This course is of ethics and morality.  A main argument has been whether or not there is a universal set or a baseline of morals that we must follow: do not lie, do not steal, do not kill, etc. If we as humans elect to believe in this universal set of morals, then why do we object to the perspective of “pro-life”? And if we do, are we that immoral if people can accept their immoral flaws.

On another note regarding the reading, I think that he is rather general when he refers to abortion simply as a killing of a life. I think that abortion is a much more complicated issue and the black and white view that it is just a killing is unrealistic. I don’t think that having an abortion is an action that is thought of without serious regard. There are even arguments that would say if the child was to have a hard life, then an abortion would be a good thing. He argues that it’s impossible to say what the child will value their life as, but in a case that a child could be born into poverty or to violence, I don’t think it’s fair to call someone who considers that immoral.