I'll start out by saying that I am pro-abortion through and through.
However, what I think is that a lot of people say that legislating against abortion is bad because it constitutes forcing your moral views onto someone else. But in a way, isn't that what all laws do? Murder is illegal, but it is likely that not everybody believes that it should be illegal. If they say that we shouldn't legislate based on our own perspective of morality, should we also legalise murder, theft, rape because they are all just applications of morals (albeit morals shared by the vast majority of society).
Obviously I'm playing devil's advocate here, and I do believe abortion should be legal up until a certain time in the pregnancy, but I think it for different reasons than the ones that most "pro-choice" people give.
Am I a bad person for being pro-choice?
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I'll start out by saying that I am pro-abortion through and through.
However, what I think is that a lot of people say that legislating against abortion is bad because it constitutes forcing your moral views onto someone else. But in a way, isn't that what all laws do? Murder is illegal, but it is likely that not everybody believes that it should be illegal. If they say that we shouldn't legislate based on our own perspective of morality, should we also legalise murder, theft, rape because they are all just applications of morals (albeit morals shared by the vast majority of society).
Obviously I'm playing devil's advocate here, and I do believe abortion should be legal up until a certain time in the pregnancy, but I think it for different reasons than the ones that most "pro-choice" people give.