Tuesday, September 1, 2015

The sanctity of women's lives

September 1, 2015




That's a picture from today of part of a New York Times article from yesterday called "Judge Allows Moral, Not Just Religious, Contraception Exemptions."

I don't know how people who say that they believe in the sanctity of life as a reason to deny women reproductive freedom can look at pictures of women killed by illegal abortions and not realize how unreasonable they're being.

Also; anyone can have a moral philosophy.  That doesn't mean that every moral philosophy is ethical or sound.  A moral philosophy is just a set of beliefs that is based on what someone thinks is right.  The Nazis had a moral philosophy that they were a superior race, which they thought meant that they should kill or enslave everybody else.  They weren't the first, or last, large and organized group to have that kind of moral philosophy.

Reproductive freedom for women is also reproductive freedom for men.  Men who don't want to be fathers just as much as their female partners don't want to be mothers shouldn't have to be.


Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, September 1, 2015 @ 5:19 a.m.