> That is an explicit statement that the legality of abortion necessarily implies the ethical acceptability of abortion. No, it isn't. Read carefully: If abort

> That is an explicit statement that the legality of abortion necessarily implies the ethical acceptability of abortion. No, it isn't. Read carefully: If aborting a fetus for no particular reason (as in "general legalized abortion") is ethically defensible, then... > It's an ethical defense of the legality of a thing that does not depend on the ethical acceptability of the thing itself. That's a fair point. Nevertheless, I would maintain that many pro-choicers would consider abortion itself ethically defensible, regardless of the implications of its legality or lack thereof. > One can defend... I find this sentence unreadable. Since you are not keen on defending the ethics of abortion, but rather the ethics of the legality of abortion, it's probably moot anyway.