Originally Posted by Kufnaka

I just decided to come back to this site after a several moth hiatus, and would like to bring up a new argument against abortion.

After several debates with my friends, it's become obvious that there's no logical way to reconcile abortion as murder with it being justified in cases of rape or maternal danger. Therefore, I've come to accept the fact that abortion is not murder. However, we can argue that the sole act of participating in sex makes the individual give 100% consent into birthing the child. At the same time, we can allow abortion in cases of rape/coerced incest without any moral contradiction because in these cases no consent was given to the sex and therefore not the birth. Also, because consenting to do a job doesn't mean you consent to getting cancer from poor work conditions, we are logically justified in in saying that women do not consent to possible death during childbirth when consenting to sex.

I'm really, truly trying to find a way to reconcile moral/religious arguments against abortion with logic and legality.