This pattern-matches to the noncentral fallacy described by Yvain, and can be very easily read as an attempt to categorically identify abortion as nothing other than what people generally identify as “medical procedures”, while abortion clearly has some elements (even in flat-out physical materialistic terms, let alone social, moral, legal, etc.) that are not quite like most medical procedures.
Doesn’t this support my position? Even if an abortion was only a medical procedure, it wouldn’t be available to vindicate the man’s choice over the woman’s choice. And you correctly note that it isn’t only a medical procedure
This seems dismissive of the issues.
Sam says there’s only one correct moral choice. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been, but I was dismissive of that position.
Doesn’t this support my position? Even if an abortion was only a medical procedure, it wouldn’t be available to vindicate the man’s choice over the woman’s choice. And you correctly note that it isn’t only a medical procedure
Fully true. It’s the pattern-matching connotation of “Here, I argue using known fallacies” that was off-putting, more than the facts stated and the actually-implied reasoning.
I cringe at the phrase “vindicate the man’s choice over the woman’s choice”, because it’s clear to me that this isn’t a mutually exclusive two-choices-only scenario (there are more than two possible solutions to this “problem”, if one wants to think of it in these terms), but that reaction is a matter of gender-equality humanism (which most people, due to historical circumstance, refer to as “feminism”) more than the actual issue at hand.
Doesn’t this support my position? Even if an abortion was only a medical procedure, it wouldn’t be available to vindicate the man’s choice over the woman’s choice. And you correctly note that it isn’t only a medical procedure
Sam says there’s only one correct moral choice. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been, but I was dismissive of that position.
Fully true. It’s the pattern-matching connotation of “Here, I argue using known fallacies” that was off-putting, more than the facts stated and the actually-implied reasoning.
I cringe at the phrase “vindicate the man’s choice over the woman’s choice”, because it’s clear to me that this isn’t a mutually exclusive two-choices-only scenario (there are more than two possible solutions to this “problem”, if one wants to think of it in these terms), but that reaction is a matter of gender-equality humanism (which most people, due to historical circumstance, refer to as “feminism”) more than the actual issue at hand.