The immorality of bombing abortion clinics as proof that abortion is not murder.

Abortion Abortion clinics Bombings Just War Murder

Journal

Monash bioethics review

ISSN: 1836-6716

Titre abrégé: Monash Bioeth Rev

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 100973394

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Date de publication:
19 Sep 2024

Historique:

accepted: 15 08 2024

medline: 20 9 2024

pubmed: 20 9 2024

entrez: 19 9 2024

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The Roe v. Wade decision was overturned in the United States in 2022. This implies that while abortion remains legal in most jurisdictions, it is no longer a constitutional right, thus paving the way for making it illegal. Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, there have been bombings and other violent attacks against abortion providers and abortion clinics, claiming some fatal victims. The overwhelming majority of anti-abortion activists condemn such violence. At the same time, most anti-abortion activists consider the fetus a person, and ultimately believe that abortion is a form of murder. In this article, I argue that if abortion is murder, then anti-abortion violent activists have moral license to bomb abortion clinics. To do so, I rely on the principles of Just War theory. Ultimately, I rely on a modus tollens argument to prove that abortion is not murder: if abortion is murder, then activists have moral justification in bombing abortion clinics; activists do not have moral justification in bombing abortion clinics; therefore, abortion is not murder. Apart from attempting to prove that abortion is not murder, I also attempt to show the incoherence of the anti-abortion view.

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DOI: 10.1007/s40592-024-00213-2 PMID: 39300053

pubmed: 39300053

doi: 10.1007/s40592-024-00213-2

pii: 10.1007/s40592-024-00213-2

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Journal Article Review

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eng

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