Is Everyone Who Disagrees With Abortion Evil?

[vetuste_ennemi]

I've just been told as much.
I have a subsidiary question: why are some people (whether through bigotry, lack of education, or poverty of imagination I don't know) unable to accept that people who disagree with them may do so for honorable and decent reasons?

[Old_Geezer]

Or vice versa ?

[andy-hughes]

I am not sure who has told you that vetuste.

I can only answer personally - and I completely accept that people hold different views to me for honourable reasons.

That does not make anyone 'good' or anyone 'evil' - it means that people hold different views - nothing more than that.

[vetuste_ennemi]

What do you mean by vice versa, OG?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Address to pedants: evil=very nasty indeed.

[andy-hughes]

Re. your subsidiary question - I think you have pinned down the most obvious reasons, and therefore answered that section of your question yourself.

[Old_Geezer]

I realised it could be intertretted in various ways as soon as I hit the submit. Probably all valid. What I had in mind was, "Is Everyone Who Agrees With Abortion Evil ?"

[Old_Geezer]

I realised it could be interpreted in various ways as soon as I hit the submit. Probably all valid. What I had in mind was, "Is Everyone Who Agrees With Abortion Evil ?"

[Mamyalynne]

Is Everyone Who Disagrees With Abortion Evil?


No.


As to your subsidiary question some people are so blinkered they won't or maybe dare not accept there is any other view than their own.

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - //Andy. Bit of back tracking by you there. You just said (on Britain First thread)..........

//My view is that anti-abortionists are very nasty people, and of course, I am entitled to hold that view. //

Do you ever think anything through. //

I don't understand the point you are making - can you explain a little further please?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Got it, OG.
I am pro-abortion. But I do accuse every Catholic who disagrees with me of being "very nasty indeed". That would make me a bigot.
I hope that is clear and unambiguous answer to your question.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"But I do NOT accuse...".

Blame the sub-editor for the crucial omission, OG.

[andy-hughes]

vestuste - I can see that I have inadvertently expressed a view which I do not actually hold.

I have said that I regard anti-abortionists as very nasty people.

I would wish to amend that view and say that I regard anti-abortionists as people who hold a very nasty view on the subject of abortion - a fine but important distinction.

[Retrochic]

Why would anyone who disagrees with the killing of an unborn baby be 'Evil' Am I missing something here? I am anti-abortion (with a few exceptional circumstances) but would not call anyone who was pro-abortion 'Evil' that's just idiotic.

[andy-hughes]

Retrochic - //Why would anyone who disagrees with the killing of an unborn baby be 'Evil' Am I missing something here? //

vetuste has started with the OP - I am unsure who has 'told her as much' so I await with interest her source for her OP.

[Jackdaw33]

I tend to be anti-abortion except in cases where the mother's life is otherwise endangered bit I don't make a song and dance about it and I don't class pro-abortionists as being 'evil'.

[Retrochic]

andy - why would someone be 'nasty' because they are against the killing of an unborn baby for 'convenience'? You can be 'Pro-Choice' yet still be anti abortion -does that makes sense? I think the choice to have an abortion should be just that -a choice you can make -I would still disagree with the abortion, but have to accept the personal choice someone has made without calling them Evil or Nasty.

[Mamyalynne]

I couldn't answer the'Are you pro or anti?' question without caveats.

There are too many variables and I have witnessed them.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Neither I do accuse every Catholic who disagrees with me of holding "a very nasty view on the subject of abortion". I just happen to think they're wrong.

A very crude, but important distinction, don't you think?

[andy-hughes]

Retrochic - //andy - why would someone be 'nasty' because they are against the killing of an unborn baby for 'convenience'? You can be 'Pro-Choice' yet still be anti abortion -does that makes sense? I think the choice to have an abortion should be just that -a choice you can make -I would still disagree with the abortion, but have to accept the personal choice someone has made without calling them Evil or Nasty.//

I have corrected my position in a previous post Retrochic - I do not wish to put forward a view that anyone who opposes abortion is 'nasty' or 'evil' and I have corrected myself on that view.

I think the ethical decisions made surrounding an abortion are massively complex, which is why I think a blanket 'pro-life' position is untenable.