RE: String of Thoughts - Over-Philosophizing About Abortion
I quite agree with what you say, except with the conclusion, what Tomlinson does is not and has nothing to do with philosophy, it has to do with logical fallacies that start from preconceived and partial premises to demonstrate a point of view that refuses to change.
Science and the scientific method born of religion and philosophy, and not so different as we like to think, is so that there are already a number of people who follow dogmatically what the scientific consensus says.
I do not know if science can, in the first instance, know whether abortion is murder or not, and second, if despite a response, the groups that fight in politics will pay attention to them. Science is only used in politics when it is favorable, when it is not, it is simply ignored and hidden. Many of the groups that request legal abortion (especially those of the extreme left) do not accept biological postulates such as that the man is naturally masculine and the woman naturally feminine, and accuse them of social constructs. So really science only has weight in the field of propaganda, it is not important in the position that these groups chose.
I see what you're saying, however I would have covered that if it wasn't so demotivating to make this post much longer knowing that there would be like 3 people tops reading. I was even going to bring the raven paradox as part of this. Plus some terms I had that I couldn't translate over from Arabic to English.
I'm answering the last two paragraphs together as they're related. The point of this post (Which I guess I failed at presenting properly) is related to that. Over-philosophizing is again taken from an Arabic term which basically means you're saying too much and pulling a lot of effort just so you avoid answering a direct simple question. By saying soon science will have the definitive answer I'm not saying it would be something we'll agree on, we kinda already know that at a certain point a baby is fully formed in the womb so I'm talking around that. Basically the answer will be available to whoever seeks it however that won't matter if abortion is turned into a feminist issue or fallacies (as I agree I should have went with fallacies instead)
But overall I do agree with what you're saying and I do thank you for the feedback. Feedback and criticism is what I'm looking for through writing these anyway.