On the contrary, assuming there is not a universal morality able to be grasped that is applicable to all abortions, then objectivity [one abortion at a time] would seem to be embedded in grasping not only all of the variables [details] involved with each particular abortion, but an understanding of how they are entwined in a particular existential context. The whole, entire relationship between them.
But that’s my point. Each facet of the particular abortion must be grasped. And these are just a few of what may well be many, many, many more. In order to assess the morality of any particular abortion, all of the variables must be grasped and understood in relationship to all of the others.
For example, at what point does an entirely healthy fetus become “deformed”. Deformed to the point that it is moral to abort it. There are literally hundreds upon hundreds of health conditions to be considered here. Both physical and mental.
And what of those pregnancies that resulted from rape in which the unborn fetus is perfectly healthy? How on earth can it be decided that shredding this baby is entirely moral? Indeed, how on earth can it even be decided when a “clump of cells” actually/objectively does become a human baby?
As for my own position on “objective morality”, I am the first to acknowledge it is no less an “existential contraption” than yours.
My point is that, in a world sans God – an omniscient, omnipotent point of view – mere mortals seem unable to establish a definitive frame of mind able to establish in turn prescriptive and proscriptive “rules of behavior”.
All I can do then is to engage in discussions such as this one and [perhaps] be convinced that I am wrong.
And, again, polemics aside, you have no idea of the extent to which I want to be proven wrong. And with respect to both this side and the other side of the grave.
After all, you are able to sustain both the comfort and the consolation of “knowing” – of knowing “in your head” – this:
1] there is a “real me” that transcends contingency, chance and change
2] this “real me” is in sync with one or another understanding of “virtue”, “truth”, “justice”
3] “virtue”, “truth”, “justice” is embedded in one or another rendition of God, Humanism, ideology, nature
Not only that but as a religious person, you are in turn comforted and consoled that “beyond the grave” your “soul” – “I” – is sustained on into eternity.
You know, if I actually understand you. You know, if you are even able to actually explain it to yourself.