Utilitarian Abortion

Adam Fisher should never be allowed to live this article down. A right a rights based theorist might argue that there aren't really any discontinuous differences as a fetus becomes a child. The loss of an actual child's life, a life in which a great deal of parental and societal resources have been invested is much more consequential than the loss of a potential life in utero. And thus to a utilitarian abortion looks more like birth control than like murder. That does not weigh in the utilitarian calculus for him whatsoever. He saw the essential rightness of his philosophical faith. So that's very fucked up.