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Peter Singer points out, along with Joseph Fletcher, that there is nothing that distinguishes a fetus in the womb from a child outside of it (Singer, 1986). Thus, since the fetus is of the same moral significance as the infant, and since infanticide is wrong, it follows that abortion must be wrong as well. Thus the abortion of a fetus is morally indistinguishable from the murder of an infant. Singer uses this logic as proof that infanticide is justifiable whereas Fletcher uses it as evidence that abortion is wrong.
Many do not recognize the moral equality of the born and the unborn. Yet if mothers could pay to have their little infants brutally torn into pieces, with the promise that the destruction would improve their lives, the people of this nation would cry out in horror.
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Therefore, I propose that abortion is morally indistinguishable from child sacrifice. Both involve the destruction of an innocent, dependant human life for the benefit of the killers. Furthermore, I assert that abortion done for the benefit of society is indistinguishable from genocide, and is the same brand of lunacy that has been the hallmark of every maniacal dictator in history (Childers, 1998).
That the practice of child sacrifice has not significantly changed in the passage of time. The only difference is that we ourselves (our needs, our appetites) have become the object of our worship. We must see abortion for what it really is. At best, it is akin to child sacrifice to the most depraved and malicious kind of deity – ourselves.
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