Singer's Argument Against Abortion

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Singer doesn’t believe in absolute, unconditional true moral rules. He strongly rejects a morality based on absolute rules because he believes moral goal is more important than a moral rule. He thinks actions are adjustable according to the situation and in the end depends on what action is providing the most good. For example, Nazi Germany came to your door searching for Jew family. So you can lie to them to save innocent life. Though your action is based on lie but more important you have protected life so goal matters.
Kant believes in absolute, unconditional true moral rules. Kant thinks certain things are absolute right or wrong regardless of the consequences because he support such actions are morally right that could be accepted universally. So, he
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Singer believes that if the birth is the dividing line then the fetus is not a human being until the birth. In this case he said it is acceptable to have abortion because the infant is not fully developed by that time.
Yes I do think it’s a really good argument against the conservative abortion, because I do think that fetus is actually a human being and we have no right, and we shouldn’t have any right to kill an innocent human being.
No I don’t think that singer response is a good response at all. Because I don’t think he shouldn’t be saying that fetus is not actually a human being. To me fetus is a human being because it’s living inside the mother, and mother is an actual human being. Inside the mother when the egg start developing, at a certain stage the human fetus will start looking like a tadpole. It’ll have noticeable eyes, and the limbs will start developing more. Now this is a clearly living thing, and we cannot deny this at any circumstances. I believe abortion is very very wrong, and nobody should be doing this at all. Nobody should have any right to kill an innocent human being this

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