celticlord
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If mere legality is the threshold for determining ethical conduct, the rule of law quickly degenerates into mobocracy.Why???.......
Regardless of what the law is today, it is incumbent upon everyone to bring their perception of moral conduct to any discussion touching on what the law should be tomorrow.
If abortion be not murder, the reason for rejecting that description should rely on a moral force beyond the law. If abortion be murder, the reason for attaching that description should rely on a moral force beyond the law. Reducing what is in essence a moral debate to perfunctory statements on the condition of the law today deprives the debate of its essential moral aspect.
Whether abortion is or is not murder hinges in part on whether it is or is not wrong, legality be damned.
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