PratchettFan
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narrowing the parameters has a tendency to reduce scope....if that's the problem, I suppose we can also argue that having an abortion is a lot like driving a car, but with narrowed parametersbut you won't die because you don't get my blood.....you will die because you have a rare blood disorder.......you won't die because I won't give you my heart.....you will die because your own heart has failed......the fetus isn't going to die because it has a rare blood disorder or has a failing heart.....why is the fetus going to die?.....????.....obviously its the only issue....So much for the right to life being the actual issue.
If it were the only issue then the only thing which would matter would be whether or not the action resulted in the loss of life. If I don't get your blood, I will die. If I can't have the organs from your dead body, I will die. But that clearly doesn't matter. The situation has to be very specific to abortion or it just doesn't apply. If the right to life only applies to abortion, then it is not about the right to life.
All you are doing is narrowing the parameters so it only applies to abortion.
No, we couldn't say that at all. Narrowing the parameters of a moral position so it only applies to the things you want it to apply and not the things you don't want it to apply to is nothing more than justification - it is not morality. If you hold that the right to life is paramount, then it should be paramount. In all cases, not just the ones you find convenient. If the right to the control of your own body is paramount, then it is paramount in all cases, not just in the ones you don't object to.
Of course, if your moral position only applies to you, you can cherry pick it to your heart's delight. It only affects you. But if you want to impose that position on others, then accept the consequences of that position on yourself as well. If their bodies can be owned by the needs of others, so can yours. If you claim yours cannot, then insisting theirs can is pure hypocrisy.