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Elizabeth Harman & The Ethics of Abortion

The Philosopher & The News

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Why Abortion Is Wrong

So part of the answer why murder is wrong is that murder harms someone. Whoever, whoever is being murdered is being harmed, and that harm somehow matters morally. And you know, it is a really important moral phenomenon to recognize that not all harm gives us a moral reason. We can see that just by thinking about plants. There are things that are better and worse for plants. I harm the weed in my back yard when i pluck it out of my back yard, i've killed that weed. That's bad for the weed. But there's just no moral reason there. It's not that there's some moral reason that's outweighed by other considerations, there's just zero moral

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