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Okay, let me rephrase. Why is abortion not justifiable if it can be shown to benefit individuals and society with regulated application? We justify other types of murder when they benefit society and individuals, as your self defense example illustrated.
If you can't see any connection than you are not paying attention. Society has always condoned murder under the right circumstances. If you support murder under any circumstance than you are acknowledging that it does have a use and a place in our society. So where do you draw the line?
If my girlfriend got pregnant and the child was going to endanger her life, or even endanger the future that we have planned and she agrees, it will get aborted. Because under some circumstances, the "killing" of a fetus is very justified. Society is better off with two fully productive people unhindered by a child they aren't capable of raising than it is with another family on welfare.
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