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RE: Abortion: Your body, your choice? Or is it the child's body that you are choosing for?
Aye, but everyone has a different religion.
When it comes to law, we need to consider logic, science and the idea of protecting the freedoms of the individual.
If your religion forbids abortion, then you need to follow your philosophies.
Let your beliefs guide your life. Not the lives of others.
The reason this argument doesnt work is because pro-life people believe the fetus is an entity of its own and that abortion is interferring with its life. To them, your argument supports the opposite conclusion to your own and demonstrates why abortion is wrong since its allowing one person to decide the life of another.
Do you think we should abolish laws against murder, rape, battety, etc? Afterall, our beliefs should guide our own lives, not the lives of others, right? Nobody actually believes we should mind our own business when someone defenseless is being harmed, so this argument is only valid if you dont think the fetus is an entity of its own, in which case it changes nothing since people who believe this are likely in favor of abortion already.