C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Pope Francis says abortion is never OK and equates it to "hiring a hitman" - CBS News
“Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?”
Pope Francis has committed a false comparison fallacy, and his argument fails as a consequence.
Conspiring with someone to kill a person entitled to Constitutional protections is murder.
But in the United States, as a fact of law, an embryo/fetus is not a person, and not entitled to Constitutional protections, where a woman’s right to privacy is paramount.
The Pope’s reasoning might have merit on religious or subjective moral grounds, but as an argument justifying the state compelling a woman to give birth against her will through force of law, it is completely devoid of merit.
“Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?”
Pope Francis has committed a false comparison fallacy, and his argument fails as a consequence.
Conspiring with someone to kill a person entitled to Constitutional protections is murder.
But in the United States, as a fact of law, an embryo/fetus is not a person, and not entitled to Constitutional protections, where a woman’s right to privacy is paramount.
The Pope’s reasoning might have merit on religious or subjective moral grounds, but as an argument justifying the state compelling a woman to give birth against her will through force of law, it is completely devoid of merit.