Last Wednesday I read some news about Amnesty international. They are pushing the government of Nicaragua.(in Nicaragua abortion is a crime) for legalizing Abortion using this argument:
"It should be possible for a woman who is raped or is in danger of losing her life, to decide whether or not to abort"
Of course the case of "rape or danger to the life of the mother" is extreme,where the suffering of an innocent woman seems to rise to intolerable heights, so that anyone with a little human empathy admit not to punish the woman who aborts, if she is already in such a terrible situation. But if we admit this kind of abortions, we could admit that some humans can be a threat to our convenience.
Even though this is not what we are defending, because we think that in spite of the severity of the situation, we must remember that we are talking about a human life, and every human is equal and has the same rights.
Therefore, these people offer us those "little bottles of poison" hidden in boxes of natural and reasonable compassion. This could look like a very little package, in a situation too justified and rare. But if we take it, we not just destroy a human life, we destroy the principles that all human life is irreplaceable and you can never seek the death of an innocent man.
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