Thank you for that very cogent exposition on those two moralities. As far as matters of personal morality are concerned, it is one way of explaining the opposing positions on abortion very well.

Politics is a different matter. In this country we are free to do whatever is not illegal. It is always a question of whether something should be outlawed.

So the question is, why should abortion be illegal? If you believe it is immoral, don’t have an abortion (or participate in any other way in one). Why should some people’s moral objection to abortion determine how others must act?

I’m not saying that question is unanswerable for anti-abortionists. I am saying in the U.S. of A. that is the question they are—or should be — required to answer.