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Cognitive Dissodance: If Abortion is Murder, What's the Problem?

If abortion is murder, what is wrong with killing an abortion doctor?  Oh, it's illegal to kill an abortion doctor!If it were World War II, and some Nazis - pursuant to law - came looking for some Jews, would you just hand them over?  Would that be moral?  That law, after all, is the law.What if you killed the Nazis.  That would be illegal.  Would it be immoral?    What about the Fugitive Slave Act.  Would you have returned slaves?  The law, after all, is the law.These are very hard issues to deal with.  A lot of philosophers have spent a lot of time thinking about these issues. Nevertheless, people who proclaim that abortion is murder want to act like killing an abortion doctor is wrong.  End of discussion.  As if the philosophical answer is so easy to come by...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).