Re: One less abortion

I agree with most of what you are saying but I also believe that it is dangerous to empower government to enforce limitations on freedom that are not done to preserve order.

I'm not talking about making laws due to personal cases or emotions but to recognize what we do when we empower government to limit personal freedom.

What if 51% of the population decided that speaking against abortion was a "hate crime" against women and the government began tracking down IP addresses of everyone speaking out against abortion.

When we empower the government to limit other people's freedom according to our own moral standards, we unconsciously give the government the right to do the same thing to us.

Once again, the laws should be passed to preserve order and for this we trade away our freedom.

A policeman shooting someone who is trying to kill someone else may seem like a moral issue but what if the same policeman shot a woman or a doctor they could choose to get or perform an abortion.

We both agree that abortion is taking a human life, but don't you have a gut aversion to the above scenario?

It is because although we may claim that our laws prohibiting murder or theft are based on "universal morality", they really only work because having a society where people are free to kill others and steal property would be too chaotic to sustain itself. So rather than empowering the government to enforce morality, we are really saying that we are all willing to give up our freedom to kill other humans or steal other people property because in doing so, we will produce a more orderly society.

Many people consider the consumption of alcohol to be immoral. Does this mean that we should go back to the days of prohibition?

God has given humans freedom of choice. We should be very careful when empowering a human institution like the government with the power to limit these freedoms. It is the fundamental principle behind our constitution.