Late Term Abortion Is Justified

First, I could not find any dictionary with the word "universilizable" in it, so I'm just going to have have to guess what you mean. I'm going to go with: being able to be made universal. Correct me if I'm wrong. "It must apply equally to all individuals." Agreed. In my point of view, it is most logical for every individual to consistantly act in their self-interest. "In other words, the mother, in this case, cannot posses the right to certain actions that no other individuals do, nor can she possess the right to violate the rights of others." As I will explain, I do not belief in rights, I believe in selfishness. "My argument is that the mother, while she does have the right to pursuit her own happiness, does not have the right to commit murder." I think it is critical that you give your accepted definition of the word "murder". What makes acts such as war justifiable by your moral standards? "Wait! you say. Abortion isn't murder!" I said no such thing. In fact, I pointed out that by my moral standards, it doesn't matter. It probably is murder. "She can induce labor, give birth, and go on her merry way." I have no concrete knowledge in the matter but I am pretty sure that labor sucks. "If she was, rather than 7 months pregnant, the mother of a 2 day old infant, would she be justified in killing it because she was tired of taking care of it?" I'm not sure if that would really be in her best interest due to social implications. But if there were none the answer would be yes. You may not like my standards but I am definitely consistent. "If you allow her that right then your moral system ceases to be universilizable." Not if the notion of rights is unaccepted. We can universally have no rights and universally act upon our self-interest. "And what is the difference between a newborn infant and a viable fetus? One is outside the mother and one is not. That is all." Agreed. "Since induced labor is no more invasive than an abortion, to argue that removing the fetus causes undue stress is disengenuous. It is no more stressful than having an abortion." How so? During an abortion you can be drugged a lot more than when giving birth, cause...well, it's not like your concerned for the baby. "Clearly it doesn't work perfectly, as bankers completely FAILED to act in their interest, precipitating the current financial crisis." I fail to see how you can blame the crisis on the free-market when we are not in a free-market. "I assume from this you agree that no one can violate the rights of others in the pursuit of happiness but just neglected to say so? Otherwise Egoism resembles psychopathy more than utilitarianism" That assumption would be wrong. I would never leave out such a defining detail. I have two things to say about this. One, yes, I am advocating psychopathy. Two, there is a complication; I accept moral codes as being needed because consistantly acting in one's self-interest(psychopathy)only works perfectly when your actually smart enough to know what is in your self-interest. This is why dumb people made religion, in my opinion. I believe that I do have this ability. Of coarse, I could be absolutely wrong and am completely negligent of my own well being. So, this is more so a system for me. The only reason I advocate it is because, ultimately, I want to induce more freedom for myself to express it. "Read the Selfish Gene. Great book. However, just because something is found in nature doesn't mean it is desirable. For example, nature is rife with parasites. That in no way justifies parasitism of one individual on another." Definition of parasite: http://education.yahoo.com... It seems to me, that by this definition, humans are parasites. We take complete advantage of many other life forms. And guess what, I really like humans. I think it is a good thing that we have acted so much like parasites, it is how we have become so successful as a species. I think if we would embrace that side of us even more we would in fact grow even more in our success. "How can happiness be an objective morality if it is experienced purely subjectively?" I didn't say it was one, I said it was LIKE one, I know it isn't literally one. "Furthermore, none of that has anything to do with late term abortion." I told you, in order to defend my stance on late term abortion I had to defend Egoism, which is what I did. Hope I cleared things about about my stance here. :)