Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense? by Kershnar Stephen;

Author:Kershnar, Stephen;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

Objection 4: An Abortion Doctor Has a Partial Excuse

A fourth objection is that an abortion doctor has an excuse, or at least a partial excuse, rather than a partial justification. The abortion doctor has a partial excuse based on the seemingly good (but in fact bad) arguments for abortion, situationism, or lesser psychological identification with the fetus. Again, this objection fails if excuses do not significantly diminish the severity of defensive violence permitted if they diminish it at all. To see this, let us imagine a variant in the Zyklon B case. The worker is a true believer in Nazism. He was a member of the Nazi Youth Corps, and all the social psychological factors in his life have supported Nazism. His childhood was such that any person raised in his situation would have been an enthusiastic Nazi and would not have opposed doing such a job, were he conscripted to do so (as was the Nazi worker). Still, it intuitively seems that he may be killed even though his excuse is at least as great, and likely much greater, than that of the abortion doctor.

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