Ethical question of the month

[Goofball]

Hmm, the question seems a bit abstract - do you have any specific example in mind you could give to illustrate? I generally find the ethics of situations to be in the particulars rather than the generalities. The only point in general which I could offer so far would be that one is only responsible for one's own actions. What someone else chooses to do in response is their own responsibility

How about this:

You're in a particular scenario, where you can choose between two options, let's call them A and B. If you choose option A, something pretty harmless, but not entirely to your liking, happens contraceptives will be legal and available to all women who want them. If you choose option B, a new situation, let's call it C, arises, in which all methods of birth control are illegal. In scenario C, a lot of people will choose to commit horrible, despicable actions abort unwanted pregnancies, which you think are is horrible beyond reason. You would never dream of committing such actions aborting a pregnancy, not even in scenario C if it was an unwanted pregnancy brought about because of the lack of contraceptives, but a lot of others would (but these others will almost certainly not commit them not have to have abortions in the scenario created by choosing A) if contraceptives are not available to them, unless you can make them change convince them to remain sexually abstinent. There may not be too great chances that you can make them change convince them to remain sexually abstinent, however.