Money argument doesn’t change truth

Regarding morality, C.S. Lewis wrote in the first chapter of “Mere Christianity,” “This law was called the Law of Nature because people thought that everyone knew it by nature and did not need to be taught it. They did not mean, of course, that you might not find an odd individual here and there who did not know it ...”

An expert witness to a 1975 hearing regarding insurance companies’ reluctance to pay for abortion recently wrote his take on that hearing as a basis to ask why so much time is being spent trying to convince the nonexpert that the moral argument on abortion is really a money argument in disguise (Fence Post, March 18).

If we were to agree for the sake of argument that insurance companies and their stock holders preferred not to pay for abortions solely for profit motives, we may have a basis for arguing the morality of their motive, but it would not change the truth about the nature of abortion.

If the expert’s money argument questioning another’s morality is fair game then, isn’t it fair to question the money motives of those facilitating and encouraging abortions? Either way the truth about the nature of abortion isn’t changed.

C.S. Lewis went on to say several paragraphs later, “Selfishness has never been admired.” I think if he were writing today, he would add, “ ... until now.”

Mike Butz

Bartlett