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I think that you're just trying to backdoor us back into the abortion debate, which has it's own separate, active thread that you've already posted in - and mentioned that you've posted in.
If Western Society granted the existance of not only God and not only a soul but imparted that soul into a xygote at conception, then your abortion argument would be valid, at least on it's face. Unfortunately, Western Society does none of those things as the simple phrase "Western Society" is a catchall to describe some linked political economies. "Society" in general is a purely local phenomenon that, much like subatomic particles, grows more complex the deeper one looks. At the end "society" ends up as individual interpretations of the world and as such can't really be completely translated to a large number. There will ALWAYS be dissenters on some topic within the moral rhealm, and that holds true within the abortion debate as well as any other political topic of your choosing.
As I said in my first post, there are no universal morals - for every one you think you can find, I am sure you can also find an exception. Morals, by definition, should be absolute, so applying them universally is ludicrous when any rule you can concoct would have to have numerous exceptions.
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