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You guys are hitting me pretty hard here. I didn't mean to say that science can always answer the question "What's morally relevant."

But science can often provide information that is helpful when deciding what's morally relevant and what is just. It's not completely helpless. In the case of abortion, for example, science can tell us things like 

  • How and when the nervous system and brain functions of the fetus develop over time
  • When the fetus is capable of living outside its mother
  • Whether the mother's health is at risk if she delivers the baby
 

So let's give science some credit here. These things are all relevant to deciding whether abortion is morally acceptable, aren't they?
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