A loving action is the right one

In regard to this broad question you can cover a range of potential ideas, topics and examples which you are most confident with in order to provide arguments and counter arguments to provide a complete and thoughtful answer. 

Loving action is the right one would be supported by situationalists such as Fletcher who believed "only one thing is intrinsically good; namely love: nothing else at all" thus it could be argued that "only the end justifies the means, nothing else" and "love's decisions are made situationally and not prescriptively". Considering an ethical topic such as abortion, most situationalists would agree that abortion can be accepted in cases where it is "the lesser of two evils" but condemned as a method of birth control. For example in the case of a woman becoming pregnant following rape, abortion can be seen as an act of love by preventing any further distress to the woman, therefore in this case abortion is the right action and is the right one. However, someone following an absolutist theory such as natural law may consider that whether the action is loving or not is irrelevant to the situation and so in the case of abortion it is never acceptable, as one of the primary precepts is to 'protect and preserve' thus leading to a secondary precept of 'do not abort'. 

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