Abortion is immoral?

Question

I find it quite humorous at your rationale and reasoning for why abortion is not immoral. Because the Court said so, you say. Hush it up, you say. It’s none of your business, you say. You have no right to tell me what I can and can’t do, you say. This is no place for government regulation, you say. You can’t legislate morality, you say. LOL. Through this argument here, I’m beginning to see a little of the right’s point on some things (although me becoming a republican would mean that Lucifer’s furnace broke). When it was proposed to raise the minimum wage, the left was up in arms when the right argued against it. You can’t do that, you said. That’s immoral, you said. You need to pay a living wage instead of what the market dictates, you said. But telling a small businessman what he can and can’t pay his workers, that’s not intrusive though huh? No, it’s only his livelihood. It’s only how he feeds his own family. When Exxon Mobil reported record profits amidst terribly high oil prices, I’m willing to bet that well over half of you were up in arms talking about the moral obligation that the oil companies had towards the consumers. You were demanding gov’t intervention, saying that it wasn’t fair what they were doing. Setting a market price for their good (you paid it, therefore it was market), and it isn’t moral you say. But snatching the life from an unborn baby, that’s perfectly moral because it’s your body and the Court said it was moral. No, the Court said it was legal, but that is NOT the question we are debating here. The question is morality. And there seem to be some glaring inconsistencies within many of your moral compasses. I think it’s time many of you make an appointment to get them re-calibrated. "

Answer 1

is having a baby that is not wanted and wont be loved moral ??????????????????

Answer 2

I can't add much to what you said (again, your logic is excellent), but I would like to address the issue raised by the person above me. I have borrowed my answer from http://deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers:

"Pro-Choice Argument: To end child abuse, we need to make sure that every child is a wanted child.

First, this completely ignores the fact that abortion is itself the ultimate example of child abuse. Second, the right to life of a human being is not determined by whether or not some other human being wants them. There are many born people in the world who we could label as unwanted, but that doesn’t mean we can kill them. As for abortion, wantedness is a function of the humanity and character of the mother. It has absolutely nothing to do with the right to life of her child.

Third, this idea of preventing child abuse which might occur sometime in the future by executing the potential victims today, makes about as much sense as trying to eradicate wife-beating by executing all married women.

This issue also assumes that unwanted pregnancies always produce unwanted children. The truth is that even among women whose pregnancies were the most unwanted, it is rare for them not to want their baby.

Further, there is no evidence that unplanned – or even unwanted – children are any more likely to be abused than planned or wanted ones. To the contrary, in 1980, Professor Edward Lenoski at the University of Southern California studied over 600 cases of child abuse. He found that in over 90% of these cases, the parents said that the child they abused had been a wanted child.

The fact is, since abortion was made legal in 1973, we have killed unborn children by the tens of millions yet child abuse has increased dramatically. According to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in 1973, there were 167,000 cases of child abuse reported in the United States. In 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services reported 1,694,756 child abuse investigations in the United States. In 450,817 cases, the abuse was confirmed, and in another 58,964 it was determined that abuse was “indicated.”

Some of this 10-fold increase in child abuse could be due to better reporting, but better reporting could not possibly explain an increase of this magnitude. There is no other rational conclusion but that our country has suffered a staggering increase in child abuse since we legalized abortion. That fact demands that we force the pro-choice gang to answer one very simple question. If legalized abortion reduces child abuse by making sure that every child is a wanted child – and since you’ve executed between 45 and 50 million children so far – where did all these children who are being abused today come from?"