I know many people who have had early abortions, and none have been damaged. Sad, but not damaged, because they had abortions for good reason.
People who use abortion as birth control are so incomprehensible to me on many levels that I can't help but hope they never have any children at all.
As for not paying with your taxes for what you morally disapprove, it's an interesting proposal. Would this principle apply only to abortion? Would, for example, absolutist pacifists be exempted from taxes during war?
Throughout history, there have been pacifists so absolute on the matter of their unwillingness to fund killing under any circumstances that they lived in absolute poverty so as not to have to pay taxes. Others have engaged in tax "refusal," and gone to prison. They might feel it odd that some people's morality is more important than theirs.
As to "it's not about pain," if you don't perceive that the consciousness, sentiency, of an embryo is highly important in this discussion, you don't have much to contribute to it, imho. |
