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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1467)	10/7/2000 12:39:41 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

When our country began there was no prohibition of abortion. Check it out for yourself. So since it was legal FIRST- does that make that the moral choice? Opium was legal too. And lots and lots of other things that are criminal now. The answer is morality is relative. But the laws are set by majority whim, or force. The lowest common denominator will be "law". Abortion is legal now because most people want it so. If they cease to want it so, abortion will cease to be legal. If the majority want infanticide that will become legal. Your argument about abortion having once been "abhorrent" and now being accepted, buttresses my claim that morality is relative, and so are laws. Different in every time, in every country. So what's your point? And how are we to know whether abortion being legal- early in this countries history and now- is the "right" position, or whether abortion being illegal is the right position? We can't know. In your personal morality it is wrong. But that really doesn't make it wrong for anyone else. Luckily your morality stops at your toes and your nose.