I.
I think abortion is bad. And so do you.
Right?
Like, it's an eventuality no one wants to reach. No one wants an abortion. No one enjoys an abortion. No one finds an abortion a to be desirable experience.
What would we think of someone who says having abortions makes her feel good? -- lunatic? -- psycho? -- masochist?
So, all sane people think an abortion is a bad thing. They may not think it is ethically wrong to do, given particular circumstances, but they would all agree that it is a bad thing that is best avoided.
II.
Getting pregnant at the wrong time makes women (or couples) either consider having or have abortions (which are bad).
No one wants to get pregnant at the wrong time, so, if they do, one of four things has happened:
1. They were irresponsible and had unprotected sex because it felt good at the time and they were not considering the consequences.
2. They were completely ignorant and did not know about birth control and/or abstinence.
3. They intentionally got pregnant at the wrong time, either for the attention or to garner some weird kind of credibility; to have a juicy, past ordeal to brag about. (Either a baby or an abortion will do the trick.)
4. Intended birth control failed, either by intrinsic flaw or as a result of misuse.
(Use of the pronoun "they" is meant to encompass the couple, and, so, not just pile responsibility on the woman.)
Can you think of any other reason? Anything else that comes to me is sort of a sub-heading of these.
III.
People in categories 1 and 3, above, are fully responsible for their unwanted pregnancy.
People in categories 2 and 4 are, arguably, not as responsible for the pregnancy.
IV.
The ethics of an abortion in either of the groupings above are on sort of a sliding scale; better or worse by degrees. The end-result, though, is the same, if there is an abortion: a person either ceases to or fails to exist.
V.
The person who either fails or ceases to exist would have been the consequence of having gotten pregnant at the wrong time. Abortion, then, is an attempt to erase the consequences of either human irresponsibility, human ignorance, human ego, human carelessness or of really bad luck.
In any case, the end result is an abortion, which I think is bad.
And so do you.
Can you offer any revision to this? Is this reasoning sound? Can we perfect it?
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