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Tasmania decriminalises abortion : Comments
By Ronli Sifris, published 5/12/2013A country that respects the rights of women should not be satisfied with abortion remaining a crime.
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<<Who forces Doctors to abort babies? No-one.>>person
Not with their own hands, but by referring them to another doctor.
If you hire an assassin, you are guilty of murder.
If you knowingly drive a rapist to the place of rape, you are guilty of aiding and abetting the resulting rape.
Whether abortion is murder or not is besides the question: what matters is that certain doctors see it as such, yet you still demand that they aid and abet what they perceive as murder - or lose their license.
How would you feel in their situation?
<<However, I do not believe in forcing women to do something they don't want to do either...carrying on with a pregnancy they don't want.>>
Neither do I, but I don't go about as a result shouting "down with religion, drag everyone to the 21st century".
<<How is it worse 'forcing' a Doctor to refer a woman to someone else>>
For a religious Christian, this feels like rape, if you need to place it on scale, or like a mother who is forced to sell her child into prostitution in order to feed her other children. A Christian doctor who did so, would feel as a murderer, guilty to the core for the rest of his life. He would lose all self-esteem and might even become suicidal.
<<How would YOU force her?>>
I never would. It goes against my moral grain.
<<Obviously, I am amongst the majority in these thoughts>>
Producing this majority-thing as a justification for cruel acts is the material that ignites civil wars.